Something quite strange happened in the last few hours and it has not gone unnoticed. Samsung was due to present its new Exynos 2200 chip on Tuesday, January 11 —That is, yesterday — but the day passed without any news about it. Although the media did not receive a formal invitation to the event, as is customary, it had been confirmed through a post on Twitter a few days ago. However, the tweet disappeared and the processor did not see the light of day either, at least not on the date indicated. What happened?
It is not known for sure, but the curious situation already fuels several rumors. Today we already tell you that It is speculated that the Exynos 2200 will not even debut with the Samsung Galaxy S22; If confirmed, it would be clear that the development of the South Korean brand’s new processor faces some really complex problems.
In addition, the expectation that has been generated around the launch of the Exynos 2200 has been higher than usual due to the confirmed collaboration with AMD for its development. In the middle of last year it was confirmed that the GPU of the new chip would be based on the RDNA 2 architecture; This would bring a significant leap in performance and support for ray tracing and VRS, or variable speed shading.
With this renewed hardware Samsung would bet to hit hard in the segment of gaming mobile. In fact, this was made clear by the announcement of the (now-failed) Exynos 2200 launch. “The gaming market is about to get serious. Stay tuned for the next Exynos with the new RDNA 2-born GPU. January 2022 “, said the tweet published last December 30 in the account Samsung Exynos. But after a few days the message disappeared without explanation and there were no new mentions. In fact, at the time of writing this article, the last publication in said profile dates from December 24.
Growing uncertainty surrounding the Exynos 2200 chip
That Samsung did not present the Exynos 2200 chip on the indicated date does not necessarily mean that we will not see it on the market. But the official silence on the subject provokes new speculation every hour. The recognized leaker Ice universe anticipated the postponement of the presentation of the processor in the early hours of yesterday. “It seems that a lot of things happen in Samsung LSI, but no good thing,” finished his tweet, in clear reference to the division that develops the chips of the Korean company.
In accordance with Ars Technica, Ice Universe posted more details about the alleged problems of the Exynos 2200 on their account on Sina Weibo, China’s most popular social network. There he mentioned that there would apparently be an issue with the GPU, which would not hit target frequency without overheating. Samsung and AMD would aim to hit 1.9 GHz but could not go above 1.29 GHz without experiencing temperature issues.
As rumors spread around the world, a Samsung spokesperson would have come out to put cold cloths on the situation. According Business Korea, the company representative explained that the Exynos 2200 chip would be revealed “with the launch of a new Samsung smartphone”. It is understood that a spokesperson cannot say much without revealing too much, but the phrase is very vague; but he also assured that “there are no problems of yield or production” with the hardware.
For now, Samsung has not yet confirmed the date of presentation of the new Galaxy S22 line, but everything indicates that it would be February 8. We will see if the company finally reveals the qualities of the Exynos 2200 there, or if we will have to wait a few more months for it.