Galaxy S23 Ultra – Samsung’s best probability

For a smartphone whose premiere is scheduled for February in almost 8 months, we already know quite quite a bit in regards to the Galaxy S23 Ultra. One among them is a huge camera sensor with a resolution of 200 MP. We also know some interesting rumors about its chipset, which I’ll get to in a moment, but first let’s take a take a look at what the S23 Ultra’s 200MP camera sensor is able to.

Samsung uploaded a video of it conducting a sensor-to-sensor test by which it takes a photograph of a cat after which prints an enormous 616-square-meter canvas of the cat’s face, all to indicate the extent of detail it will probably extract. To be clear, this can be a 200MP ISOCELL HP 1 sensor. Samsung will use an improved version of this sensor within the S23 Ultra. And here the outcomes look impressive. Sure, simply because you’ll be able to doesn’t suggest it’s best to. I mean, nobody goes to be printing an enormous poster with their S23 Ultra, but the purpose is that the sensor can take such detailed photos, and if Samsung plays its cards right in post-processing, the S23 Ultra could once more be the smartphone camera to beat in 2023 r.

As such, there are conflicting reports in regards to the Exynos 2300. Some say that Samsung will skip the Exynos line for two years and switch entirely to Snapdragon. Some others claim, citing Exynos 2300 internal codenames, that the S23 will once more be available in two chipset variants. Nobody outside of Samsung knows obviously, and I’ll keep you posted once I hear concrete evidence on this subject, but when Samsung does indeed move forward with the Exynos 2300, it has an important probability of closing the gap between its Snapdragon counterpart and even its Bionic chipset Apple A Series. Let me explain why. As you’ll be able to see, we’ve just received information from famous Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo that Apple will persist with the 5nm process for the A16 Bionic chip within the iPhone 14 lineup, including the professional version.

TSMC produces these chipsets for Apple, and TSMC stated that it would take one other yr to bring the 3nm chipsets into mass production since the yield rate may be very low. For those who do not know, yield is essentially the proportion of non-defective items out of all items produced. So the proven fact that the A16 will still be manufactured on the identical 5nm nodes because the A15 signifies that the performance and battery improvements will likely be very minimal. Now that Qualcomm has also decided to modify to TSMC for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, it will also mean that the subsequent Snapdragon chip won’t use the 3nm process either. It’ll still be a 4nm process like the present 8 Gen 1.

By the best way, Ming Chie Kuo claims that 4nm is only a marketing term, it is essentially a 5nm process. Still, in line with Ice Universe, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 appears to be performing rather well in early tests. Alternatively, now the Exynos 2300 will likely use the 3nm process as Samsung’s foundry has confirmed that it’s heading in the right direction to start out large-scale production using the 3nm manufacturing process later this quarter. Not least since it is the world’s first process using GAA transistors. Without going into technical details, GAA is a greater chipmaking technology than the present FinFET process. Samsung claims it would reduce overall power consumption by 50%, improve performance by 30%, and reduce chip size by 45% in comparison with the identical 7nm FinFET process. So, combined with the advantages that 3nm nodes will bring, the Exynos 2300 has an important probability to fill the gap with its Snapdragon counterpart. But how much? We’ll should wait and see.