ZDNet announced that the next-generation chip will be called Exynos 992 and Samsung will consider introducing the platform with the Galaxy Note20 series smartphones.
The Exynos 992 will use ARM’s Cortex A78 CPU core and Mali’s G78 GPU architecture. In theory, this would mean a 20 percent increase in processor efficiency compared to the Cortex-A77 on the Exynos 990, while the graphics unit would outperform the Mali-G77 by 25 percent. ARM confirmed that the Cortex-A78 would be used in a chipset based on the 5nm process also developed by Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer TSMC.
According to industry sources, Samsung will probably only use the Exynos 992 chipset in the Korean version of the Samsung Galaxy Note20 smartphone, while the overseas version will all use the Snapdragon chipset.
There are rumors that Samsung is working on a custom SoC for Google that allegedly uses two Cortex-A78 CPU cores, two Cortex-A76 CPU cores, four Cortex-A55 CPU cores, a Mali-G78 MP20 GPU, and Google’s Visual Core ISP and NPU.
In summary, the Galaxy Note 20 series is expected to see the debut of the Exynos 992, which is probably a slightly improved version of the Exynos 990. Previously, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 debuted with the Exynos 9825, while the Galaxy S10 debuted with the Exynos 9820. Samsung will probably continue last year’s rhythm with the Exynos 992 chip on the Galaxy Note 20, which will be released in August when the Galaxy Fold 2, Galaxy Tab S7 tablets will debut together.