Vivo X30 With Exynos 980, Dual-Mode 5G to be Unveiled Next Month

Vivo has announced plans to launch a dual-mode 5G-enabled smartphone next calendar month, joining sis concern, Oppo, which revealed such plans terminal calendar week. At a press conference in Beijing on Thursday, the Chinese smartphone behemothic announced that the Vivo X30 will be powered past Samsung'southward Exynos 980 SoC, which comes with an integrated dual-way (SA + NSA) 5G modem. While the company didn't say it in as many words, rumors suggest that the device might too exist accompanied with a 'Pro' variant with slightly beefier hardware.

As per rumors, the Vivo X30 will come with a six.v-inch 90Hz AMOLED brandish, up to 8GB of RAM, up to 256GB of storage and a quad-cam setup at the dorsum led by a 64MP shooter. Every bit for the Pro variant, it's said to sport a larger, vi.89-inch 90Hz AMOLED display, up to 12GB of RAM, upward to 256GB of storage and a triple rear-cam setup led by a 60MP sensor. Practise note that the aforementioned rumors are yet to be corroborated officially, then take take them with a pinch of salt for now.

Announced back in September as Samsung'south offset 5G-integrated mobile processor, the Exynos 980 is congenital on the 8nm FinFET process and, is advertised as the company'southward first artificial intelligence (AI) mobile processor with an integrated 5G modem that provides gigabit downlink speed in 4G LTE and upward to two.55Gbps in sub-6GHz 5G.

Aslope the dual-mode 5G modem, the Exynos 980 comes with an octa-cadre CPU comprising of 2x high-operation Cortex-A77 cores and 6x power-efficient Cortex-A55 cores. The processor also comes with the ARM Republic of mali-G76 GPU. Then in that location'south the on-chip neural processing unit (NPU) that the company claims brings upwardly to two.7 times faster performance when compared to its predecessor.

With 5G expected to go relatively more than mainstream next year, most smartphone vendors are prepping to offer devices with the latest cellular technology, not only at the premium end of the spectrum, but too at the mid-range. That being the case, chipmakers like Qualcomm and MediaTek have also appear plans to launch mid-range 5G-embedded SoCs next year, and then expect the applied science to percolate down to more mid-range devices next yr.

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