Samsung Electronics has announced two new silicon products, the Exynos 990 premium mobile processor and the 5G Exynos Modem 5123, manufactured using the 7nm process technology and extreme ultra-violet (EUV).
The Exynos 990 features the new Arm Mali-G77 GPU that is based on the new Valhall architecture, which improves graphic performance or power efficiency by up to 20%. The tri-cluster CPU structure that consists of two custom cores, two high-performance Cortex-A76 cores, and four power-efficient Cortex-A55 cores, also boasts an overall 20% performance boost.
In addition, it also features a dual-core NPU, improved DSP, supports LPDDR5 data rates of up to 5,500Mb/s, 120Hz refresh-rate displays, and an ISP that can support six cameras with resolutions of up to 108MP.
For the 5G Exynos Modem 5123, it supports virtually all networks, from 5G’s sub-6GHz and mmWave spectrums to 2G GSM/CDMA, 3G WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, HSPA, and 4G LTE. In 5G, with up to 8-carrier aggregation (8CA), it boasts a max downlink speed of up to 5.1 Gbps in sub-6GHz and 7.35Gbps in mmWave, or up to 3.0Gbps in 4G networks by supporting higher-order 1024 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM).
The Exynos 990 and Exynos Modem 5123 are expected to begin mass production by the end of this year.
