Right on schedule, Samsung has announced the Exynos 1080. Its very first chipset built on the 5nm EUV FinFET technology.
Exynos 1080 is an octa-core processor that employs four Cortex-A78 performance cores as well as four efficiency-focused Cortex-A55 cores. It uses a Mali-G78 MP10 GPU and its 5G 5G modem supports both Sub-6GHz and mmWave standards. There’s also Bluetooth 5.2.
Devices powered by the new SoC can have a WQHD+ screen with up to 90Hz refresh rate or an FHD+ display with up to 144Hz refresh rate. There’s support for both LPDDR4x and LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage.
As for optics. Exynos 1080 supports up to a single 200MP unit or dual 32MP units. Video recording is up to 4K 60fps.
Devices equipped with the new SoC are expected to be unveiled in early 2021, with vivo being the first brand to utilize the platform.
Emman has been writing technical and feature articles since 2010. Prior to this, he became one of the instructors at Asia Pacific College in 2008, and eventually landed a job as Business Analyst and Technical Writer at Integrated Open Source Solutions for almost 3 years.
