On the 18th, Samsung Electronics released the mobile application processor (AP) ‘Exynos 2200’, which is installed in the flagship smartphone ‘Galaxy S22 series’.
‘Exynos 2200’ is the successor product of ‘Exynos 2100’ announced in January last year. It is also known that it is equipped with a GPU jointly developed with AMD, rather than Arm’s previously used graphics processor (GPU). It is also the first Samsung Electronics AP product to be applied with a 4-nano process.
The GPU ‘Xclipse’ jointly developed by Samsung Electronics and AMD is based on ‘RDNA 2’, AMD’s latest graphics architecture. It supports the highest level of game graphics performance on mobile devices.
Samsung Electronics announced that it is the first mobile AP to be equipped with a hardware-based ‘ray tracing’ function. The ‘ray tracing’ function realizes the game more realistically by tracing the light transmitted, refracted, and reflected on the object to realistically express the object.
Samsung Electronics is also equipped with ‘variable rate shading’ technology that uses the GPU efficiently by selectively adjusting the image shadows. This technology provides optimized rendering in high-performance and high-definition scenes by analyzing the brightness and motion of the image.
In addition, it is equipped with ‘AMIGO (Advanced Multi-IP Governor)’, its own solution that optimizes power efficiency, to reduce the burden on battery consumption in high-definition and high-spec games and programs.
‘Exynos 2200’ is based on Arm’s latest CPU architecture ‘Armv9’. It is designed as an octa-core with a ‘tri-cluster structure’ equipped with one high-performance ‘Cortex-X2’, three ‘Cortex-A710’, and four low-power ‘Cortex-A510’.
The neural network processing unit (NPU) computational performance has been improved more than twice compared to its predecessor, and the on-device AI function that implements AI functions in smart devices has also been strengthened.
‘Exynos 2200’ has a built-in 5G modem of 3GPP Release 16 standard. It supports all major 5G frequencies around the world, including low frequency bands (Sub-6, Sub-6) and very high frequency bands (mmWave, mmWave).
Security features have also been enhanced. “As one of the first processors to feature the new Armv9 CPU core, the Samsung Exynos 2200,” said René Haas, President, IP Product Group, Arm, Arm’s IP Product Group. said.
In addition, ‘Exynos 2200’ is equipped with a high-performance image processing unit (ISP) that can process up to 200 million pixels. ‘Exynos 2200’ supports up to 7 image sensors and can simultaneously process images and images input from 4 image sensors.
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The ISP of ‘Exynos 2200’ works with the NPU to recognize various objects, environments, and people included in the background, and supports professional photographer-level photography by adjusting optimal color and contrast exposure.
Park Yong-in, president of Samsung Electronics’ System LSI Business Division, said, “The Exynos 2200 is a product that applies the cutting-edge 4-nano EUV process, the latest mobile technology, and next-generation GPU and NPU. “Samsung Electronics will continue to release differentiated strategic products as well as mobile APs to lead innovation in the overall system semiconductor industry,” he said.
