New Exynos 990 SoC makes Samsung phones with 120Hz displays a possibility

Last updated: October 23rd, 2019 at 22:10 UTC+01:00

Samsung teased a new Exynos processor launch yesterday. The company today unveiled the Exynos 990 mobile processor at the Samsung Tech Solar day 2019 event in San Jose, California. Samsung describes it equally a premium mobile processor built on the 7nm EUV process.

It'southward accompanied by a new 5G modem chosen the Exynos Modem 5123. It'south also built using the aforementioned process technology as the mobile processor and is adapted for high-book 5G applications. It's actually ane of the first 5G modem chips manufactured using this process. The 5G Exynos Modem 5123 has back up for all network technologies. This includes sub-6GHz and mmWave 5G spectrums to 2G, 3G and 4G LTE. With up to 8-carrier aggregation, it tin deliver maximum download speeds of up to 5.1 Gbps on 5G or upwards to 3.0 Gbps in 4G.

Exynos 990 is Samsung'due south latest premium mobile processor

The Exynos 990 features an embedded ARM Mali-G77 GPU. Information technology's the first premium GPU that's based on the new Valhall architecture which promises performance and power efficiency gains of up to 20 pct. That'south over and above the xx percent performance improvement from the flexible tri-cluster CPU structure which consists of two custom cores, two high performance Cortex-A76 and four power-efficient Cortex-A55 cores.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the Exynos 990 is that it features a 120Hz refresh-charge per unit display driver. This should open the door for future Samsung smartphones with 120Hz displays, something that many have been looking forward to. The company itself mentions that this should reduce screen tearing and permit for smoother animations fifty-fifty on devices like foldable phones.

Since AI is all the rage these days, there'southward no surprise that the Exynos 990 has a neural processing unit or NPU on board. It features a dual-core NPU with an improved digital indicate processor capable of performing more than ten-trillion operations per second. Having an NPU on board ways that the AI can process all of the information on the device itself. This helps better the functionality of features like facial recognition and scene detection.

With back up for LPDDR5 memory and an avant-garde epitome bespeak processor that can back up up to half dozen individual image sensors and procedure 3 of them at the same time, the Exynos 990 can enable pro-grade photography with a resolution of up to 108 megapixels.

Which devices will go the Exynos 990?

Samsung hasn't said what devices this bit will power merely given that it's patently a premium SoC, in that location'due south a possibility that it might be used for devices like the Galaxy S11 and the next Galaxy Fold, instead of something like the Exynos 9830. Samsung already unveiled a mid-range Exynos 980 bit terminal month, the company's showtime with an integrated 5G modem. It's expected to power the 2020 Galaxy A series.

The company says that the Exynos 990 and Exynos Modem 5123 is going to enter mass production by the finish of this twelvemonth. This ways we tin can look them to start showing up in Samsung devices early next year.