Only yesterday, specs of the new Samsung Exynos 2600 SoC leaked and now the company has unveiled the chip on its website. However, it has done so without any of the usual PR that goes with a new major product release like this. The leaked details were mostly correct and the Exynos 2600 will indeed feature a 3.8 GHz C1-Ultra prime core, three C1-Prox3 3.25 GHz performance cores and six power efficient C1-Prox6 2.75 GHz cores, all based on the Arm's latest v9.3 architecture. The Exynos 2600 will be fabricated using Samsung Foundry's 2 nm GAA process and its low power design and the package will use something Samsung calls heat path block which is using a High-k EMC material which is said to improve heat dissipation.The Exynos 2600 should deliver 39 percent better CPU performance compared to its predecessor according to Samsung.

The GPU will be Samsung's Xclipse 960—which yesterday's leaks also got correct—with support for ray tracing and Exynos Neural Super Sampling (ENSS) or AI-powered frame generation and upscaling. Samsung claims twice the compute performance of its predecessor here. There will also be a separate AI engine with a 32K MAC NPU and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). Other features include support for LPDDR5X memory and UFS 4.1 storage, support for up to 4K or WQUXGA displays with a refresh rate of up to 120 Hz, native 8K 30p video encoding and 8K 60p video decoding and finally support for up to 320 MP single camera resolution and the ability to shoot pictures at 108 MP at 30 FPS and of course there are some AI features here too, that Samsung calls DVNR or Deep learning Video Noise Reduction. All modern video codecs such as AV1, VP9 and Samsung's own APV are supported, but there's no sign of H.266. We'll likely get more details of the Exynos 2600 at CES early next year.