Following the announcement of their new generation of Exynos 990 chipset a few weeks ago, Samsung has confirmed that the same chip will be known as the Exynos 9830 in their future smartphones, such as the S11.
Samsung slightly confused us a few weeks ago when it announced its newest flagship and sub-flagship Exynos processors as the ‘Exynos 980' and ‘Exynos 990' (apeing Huawei's Kirin naming scheme) given the somewhat consistent though rather confusing ‘Exynos 9XXX' naming scheme of yore.
A brief refresher on the Exynos 980 and 990: the 980 is in some ways like a souped-up Exynos 9825 – with the same core architecture – but with an embedded 5G modem along with a few other improvements.
The Exynos 990 is Samsung's next-gen ARM flagchip though, featuring ARM's latest core and GPU architecture as well as significantly improved ISPs (Image Signal Processors), NPUs, though no embedded modem, curiously.
We had continued to hear leaks that Samsung would be using an ‘Exynos 9830' in their Galaxy S11 family though, and many speculated this must be a renamed Exynos 990.
Well Samsung has today confirmed that indeed, the Exynos 9830 which will debut in the S11 series is the same chip as the Exynos 990.
Of course, the Galaxy S11 series will continue to utilise Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8-series in the US and Canada; the next-gen Snapdragon 865 in the S11 series more specifically.
Source: SamMobile
