Earlier at this time, Nokiamob reported {that a} new Nokia cellphone dubbed the Suzume appeared on the Geekbench benchmark.
Nokia Suzume
Because the GeekBench web page exhibits, the Nokia Suzume will run the Android 12 system. Additionally, it’s going to characteristic an octa-core processor. The latter must be the 14nm Exynos 7884 processor used within the Samsung A10 mannequin. Taking a look at these options, and the 3GB reminiscence, now we have each purpose to assume the Nokia Suzume will likely be a low-end system designed for devoted markets. Nonetheless, what’s extra vital, the emergence of this new cellphone hints at a brand new partnership between Nokia and Samsung. So sooner or later, we would see extra Nokia telephones utilizing Samsung’s processors. After all, they are going to primarily seem on inexpensive telephones.
As a reminder, the Samsung Galaxy A10 was launched in 2019. This cellphone makes use of the Exynos 7884 processor.
Samsung’s Exynos Collection
Just lately, Samsung formally introduced that it’ll improve the variety of Exynos gadgets within the subsequent yr. A few months in the past, we heard that Samsung had been working laborious to extend the share of smartphones based mostly on Exynos to 50-60% within the mannequin vary. These chips are primarily utilized in low-end and mid-range smartphones. So there’s each purpose to assume that Samsung will obtain this aim by increasing the market share of those telephones. Some sources even show that the variety of Samsung gadgets with Exynos chips will double or triple subsequent yr.
Nonetheless, we must always level out that that is cheap. We imply the producer has suffered loads due to the disaster within the semiconductor market. So like different corporations, Samsung desires to scale back its reliance on third-party chip makers as effectively. However in the mean time we will’t assess how correct this forecast is. We should always have in mind one other prediction that in 2022 Samsung will launch 64 fashions of smartphones and tablets. 20 out of 64 will include the Exynos chips. Thus, 30% of all fashions will sport Samsung’s in-house-made chips.
Although Samsung nonetheless can’t compete with Qualcomm and MediaTek, it’s severe in relation to chip manufacturing. In keeping with the most recent stories, Samsung grabbed a 7 % share within the world smartphone software processor (AP)/System on Chip (SoC) market in Q2. This enables the corporate to land in fifth place.
“It slipped to the fifth place with a 7 % share as it’s in the course of restructuring its smartphone portfolio technique of in-sourcing, in addition to outsourcing to Chinese language ODMs,” Counterpoint Analysis mentioned. “Because of this, the share of MediaTek and Qualcomm has been rising throughout Samsung’s smartphone portfolio, from the mid-range 4G and 5G fashions.”
