Samsung Delays Exynos 2200 Announcement Amid Rumors of Technical Issues

Although the launch of the long-awaited Exynos 2200, the first mobile SOC with integrated AMD Radeon, was scheduled for yesterday, Samsung delayed its announcement until February 8, the day on which the next Samsung Unpacked will be held, where the new Galaxy will be presented. S22.

Interestingly, the brand did not provide any kind of statement yesterday, but simply deleted all references to the announcement, including the original tweet with the advance of the event. Given this, Business Korea spoke with representatives of the company, who provided the following statements:

We are planning to introduce the new processor when launching a new Samsung smartphone. There is no problem with its production or performance.

This latest clarification was made after various rumors came to light that mentioned that Samsung could not reach the target frequency of 1.9GHz for the processor’s integrated graphics, and that for now it is limited to 1.3GHz, which obviously significantly reduces its performance. Some mention that this is due to design issues that prevent it from exceeding the 1.3GHz frequency, while other leakers like Ice Universe indicate that it is because it gets too hot at the target frequency of 1.9GHz, and therefore its frequency is should have dropped to 1.3GHz. Apparently the idea is to reach at least 1.45GHz to get decent performance against the competition, although that has not been achieved yet.

It will be interesting to see what ends up happening with the Exynos 2200, and if it ends up delivering the performance that Samsung anticipated, or ends up being just another processor in the heap. Its success will define whether or not AMD continues to enter the mobile market, so we hope it will turn out well to have more competition, which always results in greater benefit for users.

What do you think about the delay in the announcement of the Exynos 2200? Were you eager to see how your integrated RDNA2 GPU would perform?