Samsung Unveils Exynos 990 Mobile SoC

At its Samsung Tech Day consequence on Wednesday, the South Korean electronics behemothic announced the brand new Exynos 990 mobile processor and the Exynos 5123 5G modem. Congenital on 7nm EUV manufacturing node, the sometime is expected to power the company'due south flagship smartphones next twelvemonth, including the Galaxy S11. Both the Exynos 990 and Exynos Modem 5123 are expected to get into mass production by the end of this twelvemonth.

The Exynos 990 comes with an octa-core CPU that comprises of 4x low-ability Cortex A55 cores, 2x functioning-oriented Cotex A76 cores and 2x custom Exynos M5 cores, although the exact clock speeds are all the same to be revealed. The graphics processing duties volition be performed by the ARM Mali G77MP11 GPU, but over again, there'south no word on the how exactly information technology's clocked. Another notable change is the back up for LPDDR5 RAM.

The Exynos 990 besides comes with a dual-cadre Neural Processing Unit of measurement (NPU) and a new DSP with a computational throughput of ten TOPs, but it's not immediately articulate as to whether Samsung is referring to the DSP's standalone capability or the combined capabilities of the NPU and DSP. According to the visitor, the SoC is both faster and more power efficient than the Exynos 9825, which powers the Milky way Note 10 in many markets.

Samsung also announced the Exynos Modem 5123 for 5G connectivity, only it will likely exist added on to the new SoC as a discrete chip instead of being integrated with information technology from the getgo. The 5123 volition support Cat.24 download speeds of up to 7.35Gbps on 5G and up to 3Gbps on LTE. It will also back up up to 108MP camera sensors natively, likewise as 120Hz refresh rates for the display panel, making information technology ready for the latest in smartphone applied science.