Mid-range Exynos gets the latest tech
- Samsung has confirmed that the Exynos 1080 chip will be available soon.
- The new chipset has the latest Cortex-A78 CPU and Mali-G78 GPU.
The Samsung Exynos 980 was a major upgrade to the company’s mid-range silicon. It delivered 5G in this segment for the first time while offering good CPU and GPU performance.
The company recently announced via Weibo that it is working on the Exynos 1080 and is reportedly acting as some sort of successor to the Exynos 980. Now Samsung Semiconductor has confirmed the new chipset for Android Authority.
Samsung also confirmed that the Exynos 1080 will feature the latest Cortex-A78 CPU cores and the Mali-G78 GPU. If the CPU layout is similar to the Exynos 980, we can expect two powerful Cortex-A78 cores and six Cortex-A55 cores for basic tasks.
It is also believed that the new chipset could be built on a 5nm (8nm) manufacturing process, joining Apple’s A14 chip used in its iPhone 12 series. It is widely expected that the next generation of flagship Android SoCs will also use this process for a smaller design and higher efficiency.
The company told us that a full announcement is in the pipeline, but it definitely looks like Samsung’s mid-range 5G phones may be discontinued for another major upgrade in 2021. We’ve already seen the Exynos 980 in phones like the Galaxy A51 5G and A71 5G, so it stands to reason that the Exynos 1080 will find use in follow-up devices or phones with similar prices.
We’ll update the article as soon as Samsung announces the new processor. What would you like to see from Samsung’s future Exynos chipsets?
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