Samsung Electronics has introduced its Exynos 2100 mobile processor at its virtual event, Exynos On 2021. Samsung says its first 5G-integrated flagship mobile processor is built on a 5nm EUV process technology that allows up to 20 percent lower power consumption or 10 percent higher overall performance than the 7nm predecessor.
The octa-core CPU comes in an tri-cluster structure made up of a single Arm Cortex-X1 core that runs at up to 2.9GHz, three Cortex-A78 cores and four Cortex-A55 cores. The Arm Mali-G78, which supports the latest APIs such as Vulkan and OpenCL, improves graphic performance by more than 40 percent, the company said. The Exynos 2100 also integrates advanced multi-IP governor (AMIGO) technology, to optimize power usages of CPU, GPU, and other processes.
The Exynos 2100 also supports AI capabilities. The newly-designed tri-core NPU has architectural enhancements such as minimizing unnecessary operations for high utilization and support for feature-map and weight compression. Exynos 2100 can perform up to 26-trillion-operations-per-second. With on-device AI processing and support for advanced neural networks, users will be able to access more interactive and smart features as well as enhanced computer vision performance in applications such as imaging, Samsung also said.
The Exynos 2100 also features an advanced image signal processor (ISP) that is designed to supports camera resolutions of up to 200 megapixels. It can connect up to six individual sensors and is able to process four concurrently.
The Exynos 2100’s integrated 5G modem supports 5G’s sub-6GHz and mmWave spectrums from 2G GSM/CDMA, 3G WCDMA and 4G LTE. The modem delivers a maximum downlink speed of up to 5.1 Gbps in sub-6-gigahertz (GHz) and 7.35 Gbps in mmWave, or up to 3 Gbps in 4G networks with 1024 QAM support.
Samsung said the Exynos 2100 is already in mass production. The announcement comes a day ahead of the company's Galaxy Unpacked event, when it is expected to announce a new series of flagship smartphones running the high-end processor.
