Samsung is making a 5-nanometer entry-level chip

Samsung’s first 5-nanometer chip was the upper-to-mid-range Exynos 1080, followed soon after by the Exynos 2100, and much cheaper mobile hardware with the same bandwidth may quickly arrive from the manufacturer.

The news source is Ice Universe, which has proven its reliability countless times, so you probably aren’t mistaken right now. It is rumored that the new chip will be named Exynos 1280, and although there is no specific specification for the chip’s processor and graphics composition yet, the hardware under development may be a weaker solution compared to the Exynos 1080, even if its numbering suggests otherwise. The Exynos 1080 will deploy four Cortex-A78 and also four Cortex-A55 cores, as well as a Mali G78 MP10 graphics controller.

If the chipset debuts, you can also get the title of the first entry-level chipset with a bandwidth of 5 nanometers. There is currently no shortage of mid-range solutions with this technology, like the already mentioned Exynos 1080 or the Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G. Still, the 5-nanometer technology is not yet available for cheaper devices. If these recent announcements are not wrong, this unfortunate condition could soon change, as the Exynos 1280 will be unveiled on November 10th. Since Samsung manufactures them, it is not yet confident that they will be the first to use the chip. For example, the Exynos 1080 will only work on Vivo smartphones.

Incidentally, Ice Universe has previously announced that the South Korean manufacturer will introduce three brand new chipsets this year, one of which will be the Exynos 2200 with AMD graphics module. If the other trio member is the Exynos 1280, it could quickly be unveiled that some mid-range construction will be unveiled later this year.