Vivo will launch a phone with the Exynos 980 5G chipset, exec confirms

Vivo dismissed reports that it's looking to build its own chip and instead confirmed that it will launch a phone with Samsung's Exynos 980 by the end of this year. Vivo may be the first to use the chipset as it was namechecked during the announcement of 980 chip. The Exynos 980 is the first mid-range chipset with an integrated 5G modem. It's an 8nm chip featuring two Cortex-A77 cores, six A55 cores, Mali-G76 MP5 GPU and an NPU. Using an integrated modems is cheaper (as they simplify the motherboard) and more power efficient to boot. The 5G modem promises download speeds up to 2.55Gbps...