Samsung Galaxy S21 superchip confirmed — and there’s a big surprise

Samsung Galaxy S21 superchip confirmed — and at that place'southward a big surprise

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The Snapdragon 875, the chipset we expect to discover inside the Samsung Galaxy S21, could be made past Samsung itself, raising questions well-nigh the fate of Exynos chipsets.

Samsung has apparently begun production at its facility in Hwaseong, Korea according to a report from BusinessKorea. The foundry uses farthermost ultraviolet lithography to draw the necessary patterns required for the chipset onto the silicon base of operations.

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Qualcomm, the visitor that designs the Snapdragon line of SoCs, usually licenses TSMC to really build the chips. However, it seems like Samsung Semiconductor made a better offering this year, resulting in an gild that's reportedly worth betwixt $850 million and $1 billion.

Samsung already designs and makes its ain mobile chipset in the form of the Exynos range. Unfortunately, while the gap isn't significant, Snapdragon fries accept historically browbeaten their Exynos equivalents in benchmarks.

Now that Samsung has effectively cornered the market in chipset production for the best Android phones on the mode, this raises questions virtually what happens to Exynos. We may see Samsung abandon evolution since it now has much easier admission to Qualcomm's designs. Equally, since the 875 is a flagship-level chip, perhaps the Exynos designers will aim more at low to mid-range chipsets for Samsung's cheaper phones like the Galaxy A series, while the Galaxy Southward and Galaxy Z series phones all kickoff using Qualcomm fries effectually the world.

American Samsung owners wouldn't detect any modify from this, every bit in the U.S. Samsung uses Snapdragon chips for its phones due to an outstanding agreement with Qualcomm. Nevertheless, in the residuum of the world, users get Exynos-powered handsets.

The Snapdragon 875 (an assumed name) will exist the first Qualcomm chip made with a 5 nanometer (nm) process. That ways information technology'll be the most densely packed chip we've seen from the company and then far, hopefully meaning there will exist both extra processing grunt and more efficient power draw than the electric current chip.

Apple will be get-go to market with a 5nm chip with its A14 Bionic, which volition power the upcoming iPhone 12 series of phones this autumn.

Overall, the Milky way S21 remains a bit of a mystery. We've heard that it may feature an improved 108MP camera every bit well as 60W fast charging. More importantly, this may exist the first Samsung phone to accept no camera notch, with the selfie shooter subconscious beneath the brandish.

Richard is a Tom's Guide staff writer based in London, covering news, reviews and how-tos for phones, gaming, sound and whatever else people need advice on. Post-obit on from his MA in Mag Journalism at the University of Sheffield, he's also written for WIRED U.Chiliad., The Register and Creative Bloq. When not at piece of work, he's likely thinking about how to brew the perfect cup of specialty coffee.