Samsung introduced its first UWB chip intended for smartphones, tablets, wearables, vehicles and much more: it is called Exynos Connect 100, and with it the Exynos Connect brandunder which all the chips dedicated to short-range connectivity will come together, for example for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
Exynos Connect 100 guarantees a distance measurement accuracy in the order of centimeters, and a direction within plus or minus 5 degrees. In addition to the RF transceiver, the chip includes baseband, flash memory and a power management system. Samsung has also included a number of security technologies, including a hardware encryption engine and STS (Scrambled Timestamp Sequence) function.
It is important to clarify that this will also be the first chip Samsung’s UWB, but for the South Korean giant the technology is far from a new novelty: in fact Galaxy’s top-of-the-line smartphones have even supported it for three to three and a half generations, in fact, given that the debut dates back to Note 20Ultra and Z Fold 2 of 2020, to then spread to the S21 (Plus and Ultra only) at the beginning of the following year. Samsung has so far relied on chips from third-party manufacturers, generally NXP. Samsung has also included the UWB protocol on its flagship Galaxy SmartTag Plus and its latest high-end Galaxy Buds Pro 2 earphones.
In short, we can say that Samsung is, together with Apple, one of the companies that so far has shown that they believe more in UWB technology. Indeed, its ability to accurately measure the position in space of one device with respect to another let us imagine very interesting scenarios from the point of view of the smart home, augmented reality and interoperability between gadgets of different classes – as demonstrated by the promotional video that we have included above.
