Samsung announces exynos 9, the first chip made at 10nm

Samsung has made the official presentation of its new Exynos 9 Series 8895 chip, which will be present in the new Samsung Galaxy S8 phones. The announcement of this new processor marks a technological milestone, as it is the first 10 nanometer semiconductor to hit the market in the coming months.

Exynos 9 is the most powerful processor ever created by Samsung

Exynos 9 Series 8895 is a processor designed exclusively for mobile phones and has a new 10nm FINFET manufacturing process and 3D transistor structure, the most advanced in the world so far. This new manufacturing process improves performance by 27% and reduces energy consumption by 40% compared to the previous 14nm model. The advance in terms of energy consumption is going to be very noticeable to improve the autonomy of the next Samsung phones, much more important than the speed improvement.

Exynos 9 is an eight-core CPU, four of them high-performance at 2.5 GHz and four low-power Cortex-A53 cores at a speed of 1.7 GHz. Inside the package is a Mali G71 MP20 GPU running at 550 MHz and a memory controller with LPDDR4 support.

Also included is the new LTE Cat 16 modem, which enables online data transfer rates of up to 1 gigabits and a processing unit capable of recording 4K content at 120 frames per second.

The Exynos 9 is currently in the mass manufacturing process and will be used in the next Samsung Galaxy S8 along with the Snapdragon 835, which is also manufactured in 10 nanometers. Samsung will use one or the other chip depending on the region for the brand new Samsung Galaxy S8, which is expected in April.