Samsung Exynos

Exynos, formerly Hummingbird, is a series of ARM-based system-on-chips developed by Samsung Electronics' System LSI division and manufactured by Samsung Foundry. It is a continuation of Samsung's earlier S3C, S5L and S5P line of SoCs. It's processors packed with computing power, graphics performance, camera technologies, 5G modems and artificial intelligence.Samsung has long offered two variants of its top-end Galaxy phones, with the primary difference boiling down to chipset. Galaxy flagships in the US, China, and several other markets get a model with a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. Meanwhile, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Korea tend to get a version with the in-house Exynos processor.

The latest and greatest Exynos chipset in 2021 is the Exynos 2100, found in the Galaxy S21 family. This processor offers a tri-cluster CPU arrangement, much like we see with flagship chipsets from Qualcomm and Huawei’s HiSilicon. We have one Arm Cortex-X1 CPU core for heavy lifting, three Cortex-A78 CPU cores for mid-weight tasks, and four Cortex-A55 cores to handle simple tasks.