The Galaxy S21 Unpacked event, Samsung said their next flagship product will feature the new AMD graphics. We all thought that would be either the Galaxy Z Fold 3 or the rumored Galaxy Note 21 Ultra.
But turns out that is not the case. According to the South Korean media outlet, the ZDNet Korea, Samsung is also bringing the AMD graphics to their laptops.
The successor of the Exynos 2100 named the Exynos 2200 will have Radeon graphics from AMD and will be used in Samsung's laptops in the second half of the year before eventually using on a broader scale in their flagship smartphones.
You see Qualcomm has a monopoly in ARM-based laptops. Ever since 2018, their Snapdragon 8cx based chipsets have been widely used in laptops. Even the recently released Windows 10 based Samsung's Galaxy Book Flex 2 laptops have Snapdragon chipsets.
But that will change come the second half of this year. The advantage of using a custom in-house SoC for laptops is that they can have better control over how they can tune in the performance of the laptop. We saw how that worked wonders for Apple with the M1 chips, not only there's a massive difference in performance between an intel chip and an M1 chip but the battery life difference is significant too.
Recently, we saw a leaked benchmark of this new Exynos 2200 with AMD graphics that not only destroyed Qualcomm's latest chipset in GPU tests but also outperformed Apple's A13 Bionic processor by a huge margin. So there's a huge potential for Samsung in the chipset market, AMD might finally help them achieve what they have been planning to do for years which is to ditch Qualcomm's chips altogether.
Use everything in house and at the same time eat up Qualcomm's market share and outsource the Exynos chipsets to other brands. Also, Samsung is working on a new type of camera sensor that will use an RGBW color filter array.
The advantage of this over say the 108MP sensor we have on the Galaxy S21 Ultra is that it captures 160% more light resulting in better low light photos.
Huawei also uses a color filter sensor in their flagships but it is RYYB. The RGBW sensor from Samsung is better as it will capture 15% more light than the RYYB on Huawei phones. Not only that Samsung will also launch 200MP camera sensors with a pixel size of 0.64 microns.
Ice Universe says this new sensor will be launched in Quarter 2 of this year, the RGBW one will see the light of day in Q3. The ISOCELL GN2 has already been made official which offers 50MP resolution with a sensor size of 1/1.12".
The biggest sensor we have on smartphones today is made by Samsung, and it's the recently launched 50MP ISOCELL GN2 with a sensor size of 1/1.12". But Sony may beat Samsung for the title of the world's biggest smartphone camera sensor. According to the latest rumors, Sony will launch a 1" sensor in April and Huawei could be the first OEM to use this new sensor in their P50 Pro lineup.
The advantage of a bigger sensor is that not only it captures more light for detailed and improved night photos but you can also get those beautiful natural bokeh effects not only in just photos but in videos as well.
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