Samsung presents Exynos 8890, SoC for its Galaxy S and … – Hypertext

Without any doubt, the Exynos 7420 that powers the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, and Note 5 to S6 Edge +, is among the year’s best in the mobile world, brute power and efficiency that Samsung He has managed to manufacture the chip under his own production process FinFET on 14 nanometer. Both have been, Qualcomm’s sales have suffered because there was no sense that Samsung used the unfortunate Snapdragon 810, lower in every way. Now, unexpectedly, Samsung has unveiled the Exynos 8890 , the successor to the 7420 whose production begins in the coming weeks and will arrive ready for Galaxy S7.

THE Exynos 8890 (eight cores total and manufacturing 14nm) means many things for Samsung and the world of telephony not only more power and efficiency. Has, through a process of investigation years, the first core completely designed by the Korean company . That is, besides manufacturing, Samsung now designs its processors, as has traditionally been done and now Qualcomm Krait Kryo against generic ARM cores. Four of the latter are also present in the Exynos 8890, as low power architecture A53, while there are also 4 designed by Samsung, called M1. All this, according to Samsung, get A 30% improvement in performance and efficiency 10% .

Samsung will have to decide between Exynos 8890 and 820 Snapdragon, but there are probably 2 versions devices, as was the case until 2015

As for the graphics, Samsung has used what will be the king of the graphics chips 2016, Mali T-880, which according advertised, is ready to move freely 4K . This could mean that, after a year improving QHD technology, this year Samsung make the leap to 4K in Galaxy S or the Note.

Finally, it has greatly improved the modem, charged that connection speed mobile networks even higher. The new chip, called Shannon and own manufacturing, support LTE Category 12 and 13, allowing downloads of up to 600 Mbps , compared to 300 Mbps theorists Exynos 7420. This, which many may seem irrelevant because they consider that the rates are sufficient, it is a big step towards getting the latency and speed of access are as stable as in optical fiber , so that the experience in the cloud is perfect and there is practically not depend on local content.