Samsung's next flagship might come with new AI smarts, 8K video recording

This time, it's not a rumor. On Wednesday, Samsung officially unveiled its next-generation system-on-a-chip for smartphones, the Exynos 9820. 

Highlights of the new chip, which is likely to be built into Samsung's next flagship phone, include a new Neural Processing Unit (NPU), which will power the phone's AI tasks, as well as video recording in 8K resolution. 

The new Exynos 9820 is built with an 8-nanometer process and has eight CPU cores, coupled with an ARM Mali-G76 graphics processing unit.  In terms of performance, the new chip should be 20% speedier in single core tasks and 15% faster in multi-core tasks than its predecessor (that would be the Exynos 9810, launched in January).  Read more...