Samsung’s First 5G-Integrated Chipset, Exynos 980, Goes Official
Sep. 4, 2019Samsung Exynos 980 is the name of the first chipset from the company that does not require the 5G modem to be added alongside the processor. Instead, the core and 5G modem are integrated into one chip on the Exynos 980 – meaning it will take up lesser space within phones as compared to 5G-supported Snapdragon 855 or Exynos chipsets.
The Exynos 980 mobile processor is constructed using an 8nm FiNFET process (same as Exynos 9820 inside the Galaxy S10 lineup) and features a total of eight CPU cores. This includes 2 Cortex-A77 cores clocked at up to 2.2GHz and 6 Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 1.8GHz. This is coupled with the Mali-G76 MP5 GPU, support for UFS 2.1 and eMMC 5.1 storage, and LPDDR4x RAM.
As per theofficial blogpost,“The modem supports E-UTRA-NR Dual Connectivity (EN-DC), which combines 2CC LTE and 5G connectivity, to maximize mobile downlink speed up to 3.55Gbps,”which is just awesome. The data transfer speeds are, however, limited to a slower 2.55Gbps in 5G connectivity for sub-6GHz spectrums and 1.0Gbps for 4G mobile networks.
