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Samsung reportedly commenced mass production of its first 2nm GAA chipset , the Exynos 2600, in late September, but during all of those months where we continued to hear about the company’s development progress, not once did we hear about which 5G modem would be paired with the SoC. Even now, a wild rumor has not mentioned which baseband chip will form a tag-team with the Exynos 2600, but it is claimed that this part will be an entirely different component. While this approach is nothing new, it has its drawbacks, particularly on the efficiency front.

Having a separate 5G modem on a smartphone’s logic board unnecessarily drains battery life, removing the advantage t

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