Helping the competition: Samsung Exynos 980 debuts on the Vivo X30

Final updated: Nov 8th, 2019 at 12:26 UTC+01:00

Samsung'due south Exynos chipsets are mainly used in Milky way devices, merely vendors similar Motorola and Meizu have used them in a few of their devices in the past. Now, Vivo is doing the same by powering its upper-midrange Vivo X30 with the Exynos 980 SoC, making it the first smartphone (not simply the first not-Galaxy smartphone) to pack Samsung's latest mid-range chipset. The Vivo X30 will go on sale in December, the Chinese visitor revealed at a joint briefing with Samsung.

The Exynos 980, which was unveiled in early on September, is the company'due south offset mid-range SoC with an integrated 5G modem. It's an 8nm chipset that consists of two Cortex-A77 cores, six Cortex-A55 cores, and a Mali-G76 MP5 GPU. It supports dual-mode 5G and can reach download speeds up to 3.55Gbps past combining 4G and 5G downlinks.

A Vivo phone using Samsung's chipset in itself is neither fundamentally new nor surprising, but a make-new Exynos processor making its debut on a rival'south smartphone earlier powering a Galaxy device does betoken to an interesting tendency with Samsung'southward components business concern. Lately, it appears Samsung'south components divisions are increasingly de-linking their growth and profits from Galaxy devices, resulting in reduced preferential treatment for Samsung'south own devices.

The debut of the Exynos 980 in the Vivo X30 is an apt instance of this strategy. Samsung wants to revive its smartphone concern in China with a lineup of localised 5G devices, but its Exynos business sees more growth opportunities in catering 5G-integrated chipsets to rival smartphone manufacturers. Nosotros have seen the same happen with the company's high-resolution ISOCELL camera sensors, QLED panels for TVs, high-refresh-rate AMOLED screens, and more.

And bluntly, all of this makes sense for Samsung when you consider the bigger picture. The visitor's biggest rivals are not going to slow down if Samsung refuses to supply the best of its components. Instead, the unmet need in the market creates space for new function suppliers and will eventually impairment Samsung's business fifty-fifty more. Moreover, the Korean company's devices won't meet a dramatic rise in sales if information technology tries to withhold some of its latest components as none of them are and then pathbreaking or difficult to clone.

Source: https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-exynos-980-makes-debut-on-the-vivo-x30/

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