Samsung quietly canceled the announcement of its flagship Exynos 2200 chip with AMD RDNA2 graphics

Late last year Samsung officially announced that it would unveil its new flagship Exynos chipset with AMD RDNA 2 graphics on January 11. However, January 11 has come to an end, and the new processor has not been presented. Moreover, Samsung not only didn't announce the postponement of the event and its reasons, but quietly deleted the announcement from the Exynos Twitter page.

According to fresh leaks, Samsung will unveil its Galaxy S22 series of flagship smartphones, which should debut the new Exynos chipset, on February 8. Last year, the Galaxy S21 series was announced on January 14, while the Exynos 2100, on which the smartphones are based, debuted two days earlier. If you follow this logic, Samsung still has time to introduce the Exynos 2200 before the Galaxy S22 series sees the light of day.

Nevertheless, such last-minute changes in the event schedule are probably indicative of the problems Samsung may have encountered. In addition, it remains an open question whether the Exynos 2200 will be ready in time for the launch of the new flagship smartphone series and whether the sudden difficulties will lead to the postponement of the Galaxy S22 release.

Samsung announced it will unveil a mobile processor with AMD RDNA 2 graphics on January 11

Recent months have seen the announcement of such flagship chipsets as the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and MediaTek Dimensity 9000, with smartphones based on which will hit the market early next year. Now it's Samsung's turn to unveil its fresh flagship platform. The company officially announced today that it will unveil its high-end chip with AMD RDNA 2 graphics as early as January 11.

Samsung posted the official announcement video of the event on Twitter. In the caption to the video, the company clearly stated that the chip will boast integrated AMD RDNA 2 graphics, leaving no room for speculation. Unfortunately, there's no more official data about this chipset yet. According to early leaks, the chip will be built using a 5nm process, while the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Dimensity 9000 use 4nm lithography.

#PlaytimeIsOver. The gaming marketplace is about to get serious. Stay tuned for the next #Exynos with the new GPU born from RDNA 2. January 11, 2022. pic.twitter.com/0H2MeVUbeS & ; Samsung Exynos (@SamsungExynos) December 30, 2021

The novelty is expected to be called Exynos 2200 and it will get an eight-core CPU with one Cortex-X2 core, three Cortex-A710 and four Cortex-A510 cores. RDNA 2 graphics will enable features previously unavailable on smartphones, such as real-time ray tracing. The Exynos 2200 is expected to become the basis of the Galaxy S22 series smartphones for a number of markets.