Samsung may unveil its next flagship smartphone SoC, which could be called the Exynos 2100, on December 15. The company officially revealed the date in a short animated video published on YouTube earlier this week.
Titled “Thank you,” the video description reads: “In our journey back inside the phone you love, we’ve prepared something small for everyone, especially our fans, who are supporting us and struggling through this tough year. Please stay tuned until December 15th.”
The 30 seconds-long video is addressed to the fans and users of Samsung’s Exynos processors. It shows gratitude towards the Samsung community, thanking them for continued support. The trailer video is also a kind of emotional apology from the company, who knows that its Exynos processors have lagged behind the competition in recent years. Consumers have had to suffer because of its failures and it now wants to do right by them.
Although Samsung hasn’t confirmed what it will announce on December 15, the Exynos 2100 chipset should be a safe bet. It recently announced its first 5nm SoC, the Exynos 1080. The new chipset will debut inside the Vivo X60 series later this month.
Exynos 2100 could bring a huge performance boost over its predecessors
It has been a difficult few years for Samsung with its Exynos processors, more so the flagship ones. They have consistently fallen behind the alternative solutions offered by Qualcomm, with the performance gap increasing with each generation.
2020 was probably the tipping point, as the Exynos 990 employed in the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Note 20 phones fared much worse than the Snapdragon 865/865+ powered variants of the phone. Samsung was heavily criticized by users and shareholders alike for such a poor show.
The company has now made some major strategic changes in a bid to regain the lost trust. It has been using its in-house Mongoose CPU cores in its Exynos chipsets since 2016. But starting with the Exynos 2100, it will use the stock ARM cores.
Rumors suggest the new chipset will feature one ARM Cortex-X1 core, three Cortex-A78 cores, and four Cortex-A55 cores. The chipset will be built using Samsung’s 5nm EUV process and will pack a Mali-G78 GPU.
There are reports that the Exynos 2100 will have its prime X1 core running at 2.91GHz, while the A78 and A55 cores top up at 2.81GHz and 2.21GHz respectively. These rumored specs peg the chipset at a much faster speed than the recently-announced Snapdragon 888. It better be true, or Samsung’s Exynos team may have harder times going forward. Hopefully, the Exynos 2100 will be as powerful if not more than the Snapdragon 888.