Samsung starts mass production of its own 5G chips for mobile phones

Samsung Electronics has announced that it has now started mass production of its own 5G chips. The new chip is the Exynos Modem 5100. It contains a 5G multi-mode chipset. This is the same chipset that is used to power the Samsung flagship smart phone Galaxy S10 5G.

Samsung Exynos Modem 5100 was first unveiled in August 2018 and claims to be the world’s first 5G modem compatible with the 3GPP’s 5G New Radio (5G-NR) standard. It can reach a downlink speed of up to 2 Gbps for frequencies under 6 GHz, and a downlink speed of up to 6 Gbps for the mmWave spectrum.

These superb speeds make this modem up to 5x times faster than 4G ones. Further, the 4G connectivity with the new Samsung Exynos 5100 had improvements, making it to reach download speed of up to 6 Gbps.

Along with this, the South Korean tech giant has also started mass producing two more items:

• its single-chip radio frequency transceiver, the Exynos RF 550
• and the supply modulator solution, the Exynos SM 5800.

The Exynos RF 5500 has 14 receiver paths for download, 4×4 MIMO (Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output), and a higher-order 256 QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) scheme for data transfer in 5G networks; and the Eyxnos SM5800 is 30% more power efficient than previous offerings. All three chips support 5G-NR sub-6-gigahertz (GHz) spectrum and legacy radio access technologies.

Samsung is now one of the only companies with an end-to-end 5G solution from chipsets, network core, radio solutions, and the end-user devices. Samsung seems to be uniquely positioned to deliver the next-generation smartphone and network.