Hot at the heels of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 unveiling, Samsung has found out their very own subsequent-gen chipset that may be likely to be inside of so much in their 2016 flagship merchandise. It’s the Exynos 8 Octa 8890, a 64-bit Octa-Core chipset that has all of the juice you’d be expecting from a Samsung package.
It’s constructed on a 14nm FinFET procedure, and is the primary unmarried-chip Exynos that mixes their customized ARMv8-primarily based CPU with an LTE Category 12/13 modem. Samsung didn’t move into excessive element concerning the customized CPU cores, however they recommend it’s 30% quicker and 10% extra environment friendly than the Exynos 7. The customized cores will make up the top-finish a part of the chipset, and ARM’s Cortex-A53 might be used at the decrease finish. It’ll additionally game Mali-T880 pics which will have to have the ability to rival the highest-line choice from Qualocmm’s lineup somewhat simply.
Samsung says mass manufacturing for the chip will start by way of the top of this yr, and it’s imaginable that they’ll be capable of pass in time for the Samsung Galaxy S7, which we’re listening to may just release once February or March 2016.
[by the use of Samsung]