Samsung may have gone all-in on Qualcomm Snapdragon chips for its Galaxy S23 smartphone lineup. But the company is still producing its own chips under the Exynos brand, and now Samsung has introduced two new Exynos 1300 series chips that will likely power some of the company’s upcoming Galaxy A-series mid-range phones. The Samsung Exynos […]
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Samsung postpones its Exynos 2200 chip launch
Samsung’s Exynos 2200 processor is expected to be the company’s first chip with integrated AMD RDNA 2 graphics and support for ray-tracing. And Samsung had announced plans to officially introduce the chip on January 11, 2022 about a month ahead of the launch of the company’s Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphone, which is expected to be […]
Samsung confirms ray tracing coming to Exynos GPUs
Samsung has been working with AMD to bring Radeon graphics to the Exynos chips used in many of the company’s smartphones and tablets, and while Samsung has been pretty quiet about the partnership for the past few years, this June AMD CEO Lisa Su promised that the “next flagship” SoC from Samsung would feature AMD […]
Samsung Exynos W920 is a 5nm chip for smartwatches
Most smartwatches running Google’s Wear OS software that have shipped in recent years have been powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear processors. But the new Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 that’s set to launch this week? It’ll be using Samsung’s brand new Exynos W920 processor instead. Samsung says the new chip offers up to 20% faster CPU performance than […]
Samsung Exynos chip with AMD graphics to bring ray-tracing to mobile
Two years after announcing plans to bring AMD graphics to Samsung Exynos mobile chips, it looks like the first of those chips could be ready to launch soon. During a Computex keynote, AMD’s Lisa Su said that Samsung’s “next flagship” mobile system-on-a-chip would feature custom graphics from AMD featuring the company’s RDNA 2 graphics architecture. […]
Lilbits: Amazon may be cracking down on pay-to-play reviews
At least two companies that sell mobile accessories on Amazon seem to have had all their product listings removed a few days ago. Search the site for a set of Mpow wireless headphone or earbuds and you’ll find that everything is “currently unavailable”. The same goes for Aukey, which normally sells a much wider range […]
Samsung could launch a Windows PC with Exynos CPU and AMD graphics this year
Samsung released its first Windows laptop with an ARM processor last year, but like every other Windows on ARM device released to date it was powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The company’s next Windows on ARM PC could be something very different though – according to a report from ZDNet Korea, Samsung is planning […]
Samsung Exynos 2100 is a 5nm chip with ARM Cortex-X1 and support for 5G and 200MP cameras
Qualcomm’s next-gen smartphone processor is a 5nm, octa-core chip with one ARM Cortex-X1 CPU core plus a mix of an integrated 5G modem and support for up to 26 TOPs of AI performance. In other words, the new Samsung Exynos 2100Â sounds a lot like Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 888 processor, at least on paper. Hopefully that […]
Future Samsung Exynos chips won’t feature custom CPU cores
Samsung has been one of the world’s largest chip manufacturers for the past few years — although that’s primarily due to the company’s memory and storage chips rather than application processors. But Samsung does make a lot of Exynos processors that power its smartphones, tablets, and other products. Up until now, these have included a […]
Samsung’s new Exynos 990 mobile chip could bring performance boost, 120 Hz display support
Samsung has unveiled a new “premium mobile processor” that could power the company’s next-gen flagship phones — at least in some markets. The company has a habit of releasing phones with Qualcomm Snapdragon chips in the US while using its own Exynos processors in other markets. Anyway, the new Samsung Exynos 990 seems like a significant […]