Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks

As expected, Samsung today announced its high-end in-house Exynos 9 Series 9810 chipset ahead of CES 2018, which will be powering the South Korean giant’s upcoming flagship smartphones such as Samsung Galaxy S9, S9+, and Note 9. The Exynos 9810 is an upgrade to last year’s 8895 SoC. Samsung says that the Exynos 9810 SoC brings the next level of performance to smartphones and smart devices with its powerful third-generation custom CPU, faster gigabit LTE modem and sophisticated image processing with deep learning-based software.

The Samsung Exynos 9810 SoC is built on the second-generation 10nm manufacturing process, which improves the overall power efficiency and performance. The processor has new eight-core CPU under its hood, four of which are powerful third-generation custom cores that can reach 2.9 GHz, with the other four optimised for efficiency. Samsung confirmed that the single-core performance on the Exynos 9810 SoC is enhanced two-fold and multi-core performance is increased by around 40% compared to its predecessor.
Furthermore, the chipset introduces several new features to enhance user experience with neural network-based deep learning and stronger security on the smartphones. This technology allows the processor to accurately recognise people or items in photos for fast image searching or categorisation, or through depth sensing, scan a user’s face in 3D for hybrid face detection.
With the help of both hardware and software, hybrid face detection enables realistic face-tracking filters as well as stronger security when unlocking a device with one’s face. For added security, the processor has a separate security processing unit to safeguard vital personal data such as facial, IRIS and fingerprint information.