samsung The Electronics Systems LSI division aims to double shipments of its application processor (AP) ‘Exynos’ in 2021. About 20 percent of Samsung Galaxy smartphones are powered in-house. Exynos At present, the company’s share in processors and third-party phones is now in single digits, which is less than the 10 per cent mark in mid-2019.
The customer base is mostly limited to Chinese brands such as Vivo and Meizu.
Samsung has fixed the issues with Exynos chips
PhoneArena reports that the 5G communication and heat issues have been resolved in the Samsung Exynos chip.
Samsung’s Exynos chips have sometimes been criticized for their performance, efficiency and heat management problems, even after being recognized for their competitiveness. Now that the company has embraced Arm’s CPU cores, the performance of flagship and midrange SoCs has improved significantly, and is likely to be even better with the next generation.
Samsung has teamed up with AMD to create a mobile GPU and it is expected to be equipped with the Exynos 2200 that will power the high-end Galaxy S22 series. A large proportion of future mid-tier and entry-level phones will also feature Exynos chips. The decision was partly driven by chip shortages.
PhoneArena also reports that Samsung plans to equip around 50 to 60 percent of the smartphones with in-house processors.
To meet the target, the company has started expanding facilities for the respective components and its affiliates are also planning to increase investments to facilitate the target. But, there was no mention of Galaxy S22 in the report.
Samsung was said to be dealing with some yield issues and from this it was speculated that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 898 would be available in most regions.
Samsung plans to ship 320 million smartphone devices in 2021
The PhoneArena report also claimed that Samsung expects to increase total smartphone shipments from 50 to 60 million units to 320 million units in 2021. The company’s latest foldable phones are performing well compared to the older generations, but that alone can’t make up for the perceived drop. major sales.
Samsung’s AMD-powered Exynos 2200 is reportedly based on a 5nm process. The version destined for the Galaxy S22 Ultra is believed to have a Cortex X2 core clocked at 2.9GHz, three mid-tier cores clocked at 2.8GHz, and four smaller cores clocked at 2.2GHz. The GPU frequency is 1250MHz.
It remains to be seen how it will stack up against competing chips that will power the best upcoming phones.
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