Samsung launches mass production of Exynos 2200 smartphone processor

Samsung said on Tuesday it had started mass production of its new Exynos 2200 mobile application processor, which could power the next series of Galaxy S22 smartphones.

The chip, made with the company’s 4-nanometer EUV node, sports a new GPU called Xclipse based on the AMD RDNA 2 architecture, which Samsung says would deliver a “console-level” gaming experience in smartphones. .

According to the South Korean tech giant, Xclipse will offer advanced graphics features such as hardware-accelerated ray tracing, which simulates real-world physical behavior of light inside the game, and rate shading. variable, where the shading rate in game areas can be lowered to optimize GPU workload.

Xclipse will also come with Advanced Multi-IP Governor, a feature that manages power efficiency to reduce battery drain for high resolution gaming, Samsung said.

AMD’s senior vice president at Radeon said Xclipse is “the first result of several planned generations of AMD RDNA graphics in Exynos SoCs.”

Meanwhile, Exynos 2200 also comes with an octacore processor design that uses Arm’s new Armv9 processor cores, which Samsung says have boosted security and performance over Armv8 cores.

The processor will have three clusters: the flagship Cortex-X2 core, three big Cortex-A710 cores and four small Cortex-A510 cores.

According to Samsung, Exynos 2200 will also offer enhanced on-device AI thanks to a new neural processing unit (NPU) that has double the performance of its predecessor. The NPU can be used with the image signal processor to support taking more realistic photos with the camera. The image signal processor supports 108MP in single camera mode and offers 4K HDR and 8K video recording.

Exynos 2200 also comes with a 5G modem which meets the 3GPP Release 16 standard and supports sub-6GHz and mmWave spectrum bands, as well as EN-DC which bundles 4G and 5G signals. The modem offers up to 10 Gbps in maximum speed. Exynos 2200 security features include built-in secure element, root of trust and inline encryption for memories.

Meanwhile, Samsung previously teased an announcement for the Exynos 2200 scheduled for January 11, which ultimately didn’t happen, sparking a rumor of performance issues.

In a statement to ZDNet, the company said, “We timed the announcement after communicating with customers. We cannot answer questions based on rumours.”

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