Samsung has announced its new Exynos processor that will be used in the next-generation flagship device. It’s the Exynos 8 Octa 8890, Samsung’s second processor based on 14nm FinFET process. The biggest difference compared to previous generation 14nm Exynos 7 Octa is the custom designed CPU that is based on 64-bit ARMv8 architecture and integrates the latest LTE Rel.12 Cat.12/13 modem.
When compared to the processor used in the Galaxy Note5 and the Galaxy S6 family, the Exynos 8 Octa improves performance by 30 percent and power efficiency by 10 percent. It also employes HMP function to efficiently use its 8-cores, which includes four custom cores and four Cortex-A53 ones. On the modem side, it is able to deliver download speeds of up to 600Mbps and 150Mbps of upload. The graphics processing is handled by ARM’s Mali-T880 GPU.
Samsung has confirmed that it will go into mass production in late 2015, which is safe to say, the production will go live sometime in December to brace ourselves for an early sale of the upcoming Samsung smartphone, Galaxy S7.
Due to the underwhelming sales of the Galaxy S6 family, Samsung is rumoured to announce the Galaxy S7 few weeks early, most likely at the CES 2016.
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