Let’s say you want to share funny moments in your life with your friends. You open a live streaming app and start broadcasting what you see via the smartphone camera. But have you ever wondered what happens in the backstage of your phone?

The answer lies in a tiny chip in your smartphone – the mobile processor. Engineered with precision, Exynos provides the foundation for Samsung’s cutting-edge mobile innovations and features.

Just like thousands of mini robots working in perfect synchronicity, the processor seamlessly controls almost all mobile capabilities, whether it’s operating the camera, processing images or transmitting data. With industry-leading features, the processor offers the best-in-class smartphone experience:

• Unmatched Performance: Exynos’ central processing unit (CPU) offers ultimate computing power to enable smartphones complete tasks quickly and efficiently.
• Artificial Intelligence: Featuring advanced AI capabilities¹, Exynos enhances our photos and helps organize our day.
• Seamless Connectivity: Exynos’ modem supports diverse mobile broadband, including 5G NR², for smooth downloading, streaming and browsing.
• Next-Level Gaming: Equipped with a powerful graphics processing unit (GPU), Exynos brings console-like gaming to smartphones.
• Capture Every Detail: Shoot like a master photographer with Exynos’ image signal processor (ISP) which automatically adjusts camera settings.
• Vibrant Videos: Record 4K UHD video and watch back in more than 1 billion colors.³
• Immersive Display: High-resolution display turns your smartphone screen into an immersive experience.

¹AI capabilities are supported by the Exynos 9810 and Exynos 9610.

²5G NR is supported by the Exynos Modem 5100.

³4K UHD videowith 10-bit color is supported by the Exynos 9810.

In recognition of its innovation and technological advancements, Samsung’s Exynos 9 Series 9810 has been selected as a CES 2018 Innovation Awards HONOREE in the Embedded Technologies product category and will be displayed at the event, which runs January 9-12, 2018, in Las Vegas, USA.

“The Exynos 9 Series 9810 is our most innovative mobile processor yet, with our third-generation custom CPU, ultra-fast gigabit LTE modem and, deep learning-enhanced image processing,” said Ben Hur, vice president of System LSI marketing at Samsung Electronics. “The Exynos 9810 will be a key catalyst for innovation in smart platforms such as smartphones and personal computing for the coming AI era.”

With the benefits of the industry’s most advanced 10nm process technology, the Exynos 9810 will enable seamless multi-tasking with faster loading and transition times between the latest mobile apps. The processor has a brand new eight-core CPU under its hood, four of which are powerful third-generation custom cores that can reach 2.9 gigahertz (GHz), with the other four optimized for efficiency. With an architecture that widens the pipeline and improves cache memory, single-core performance is enhanced two-fold and multi-core performance is increased by around 40 percent compared to its predecessor.

Exynos 9810 introduces sophisticated features to enhance user experiences with neural network-based deep learning and stronger security on the most advanced mobile devices. This cutting-edge technology allows the processor to accurately recognize people or items in photos for fast image searching or categorization, or through depth sensing, scan a user’s face in 3D for hybrid face detection. By utilizing both hardware and software, hybrid face detection enables realistic face-tracking filters as well as stronger security when unlocking a device with one’s face. For added security, the processor has a separate security processing unit to safeguard vital personal data such as facial, iris and fingerprint information.

The LTE modem in the Exynos 9810 makes it much easier to broadcast or stream videos at up to UHD resolution, or in even newer visual formats such as 360-degree video. Following the successful launch of the industry’s first 1.0 gigabits per second (Gbps) LTE modem last year, Samsung again leads the industry with the first 1.2Gbps LTE modem embedded in Exynos 9810. It’s also the industry’s first Cat.18 LTE modem to support up to 6x carrier aggregation (CA) for 1.2Gbps downlink and 200 megabits per second (Mbps) uplink. Compared to its predecessor’s 5CA, this new modem delivers more stable data transfers at blazing speed. To maximize the transfer rate, the modem supports a 4×4 MIMO (Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output) and 256-QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) scheme, and utilizes enhanced Licensed-Assisted Access (eLAA) technology.

Not only will multimedia experiences on mobile devices with Exynos 9810 be faster, but they will also be more immersive, thanks to a dedicated image processing and upgraded multi-format codec (MFC). With faster and more energy-efficient image and visual processing, users will see advanced stabilization for images and video of up to UHD resolution, real-time out-of-focus photography in high resolution and brighter pictures in low light with reduced noise and motion blur. The upgraded MFC supports video recording and playback at up to UHD resolution at 120 frames per second (fps). With 10-bit HEVC (high efficiency video coding) and VP9 support, the MFC can render 1,024 different tones for each primary color (red, green and blue). This translates to a vast 1.07 billion possibilities of colors, or 64 times the previous 8-bit color format’s 16.7 million. With a much wider color range and more accurate color fidelity, users will be able to create and enjoy highly immersive content.

The Exynos 9 Series 9810 is currently in mass production.

For more information about Samsung’s Exynos products, please visit http://www.samsung.com/exynos.