Samsung Disassembles The Innards Of The Exynos 2200 Which Will Debut On The S . Series Device

Samsung has started mass production of its newest chip, the Exynos 2200. (Photo: Doc. Samsung)

JAKARTA - Samsung is rumored to have started mass production of its newest chip, the Exynos 2200 which may be embedded in the upcoming Galaxy S22 smartphone series.

The chip, built with Samsung's own 4nm EUV node, uses a new GPU called Xclipse based on AMD's RDNA 2 architecture, which the company says will offer a console-level gaming experience on smartphones.

According to the South Korean tech giant, Xclipse offers advanced graphic features such as hardware-accelerated ray tracing, simulating how light physically behaves in the real world in games, and variable-level shadows, where the level of shadows in the game area can be lowered to optimize load. GPU work.

Xclipse will also come with a feature that manages power efficiency to reduce battery drain for running high-resolution games. AMD SVP of Radeon GPU technology David Wang said that the new GPU is the first of several planned generations of AMD RDNA graphics in the Exynos SoC.

In addition, the Exynos 2200 also comes with an octacore CPU design that uses the new Armv9 CPU cores from Arm. Samsung claims to have improved security and performance over the Armv8 core.

Launching ZDNet, Tuesday, January 18, the CPU itself will have three clusters, namely the high-power Cortex-X2 flagship core, three large Cortex-A710 cores for balanced performance, and four small Cortex-A510 cores to improve battery efficiency.

Furthermore, the Exynos 2200 will also offer improved on-device AI thanks to a new neural processing unit (NPU) which has twice the performance of its predecessor. This NPU can be used with an image signal processor to support more realistic shooting with the camera.

The image signal processor supports 108 MP in single camera mode, and offers 4K HDR and 8K video recording. The ISP architecture is also designed to support camera sensors up to 200MP, one of which Samsung announced last year.

The Exynos 2200 also comes with a 5G modem that complies with the 3GPP Release 16 standard and supports sub-6GHz and mmWave spectrum bands, as well as EN-DC which groups 4G and 5G signals. This modem offers a maximum speed of up to 10Gbps. Security features in the Exynos 2200 include integrated secure elements, root of trust, and inline encryption for memory.

Samsung's high-end Exynos chips typically make their way into the company's flagship Galaxy S series of phones, although models sold in the United States (US) and certain other markets use Qualcomm Snapdragon.

Other phone makers like Vivo occasionally use Exynos chips in their own devices, but may have to wait until the alleged Galaxy S22 is on hand to see if AMD's technology can prove any progress in mobile GPUs.

However, it is not known for sure when Samsung will officially show off its new chip. Previously, it had been set last January 11th, but in the end it didn't happen, sparking rumors of performance issues.