According to Park Yong-in, the President of Samsung’s System LSI, Galaxy phones will support satellite services next year. The Galaxy S24 series is expected to debut in early 2024, and this is a not-so-subtle hint about it.
Park Yong-in stated that technical preparations have already been made to enable satellite-based communication at the 2023 Semiconductor Expo (SEDEX). There is a possibility that this is a reference to the ability of the Exynos Modem 5300 to communicate in two directions via satellite.
This raises a question: if the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3-powered Galaxy S24 Ultra and Exynos 2400-powered Galaxy S24 and S24+ are true, how will the Ultra support satellite communication?
In addition, Park Yong-in discussed Samsung’s plans to improve ray tracing for smartphones. On the Galaxy S22 with the Exynos 2200, it is a feature that generates light reflections to add realism to games.
As part of his presentation, he also discussed Generative AI, a feature that will be at the center of Qualcomm’s recently announced Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. By giving succinct, human-like responses, generating media (videos, photos), and other features, it allows a virtual assistant to do much more than a simple answering machine. The Exynos 2400 could be Samsung’s first attempt at implementing on-device generative AI.
