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Samsung today announced that they started mass producing an Exynos 7 Octa configuration built with a 14nm die process. Such a small die makes room for better performance with significant savings in power consumption.
In comparison to 20nm Exynos 7 Octa chipsets, Samsung says this new chipset is 20% faster and 35% more power efficient. Those are some pretty big gains that could have huge impacts on device performance and battery life.
The question: which device is this going inside? Samsung obviously wouldn’t name drop anything, though they did confirm that it’d be fitted inside upcoming top-line devices. We imagine they’re referring to none other than the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the Samsung Galaxy S6.
Of course, it’s all speculation until we get the official announcement so let’s cool our engines until March 1st arrives when Samsung heads to Barcelona for the announcement.
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Cool. I’m still hoping for a 810 s6
“We imagine they’re referring to none other than the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the Samsung Galaxy S6.” Damn two S6’s? Maybe a 6 Plus? With a new, more power consuming touch wiz let’s hope its only slightly slower than Moto E.
I think he forgot to put edge..
I still shy away from Samsung Chip-sets after my experiences with them in the past.
If they just started mass producing this then I would highly doubt it would be ready in time for the S6. You would think the S6 is already well into production. Perhaps we’ll see this in the Note 5.
Not so sure. They can crank these out. MWC is still a few weeks away and the phone will not likely hit retail at the same time. Maybe weeks to month away after that? So, I think it is possible. Maybe. Hopefully. Please.
significant savings in power consumption, significant savings in power consumption, significant savings in power consumption…. music to my ears
Problem is, the LTE radio is the biggest power expenditure, not the processor.
Qualcomm has a very very efficient LTE implementation. I doubt they’ll let Samsung just use theirs without charging extra $$$.
We’ll have to see what Samsung can cook up for an LTE radio.
LTE radio, refresh rate and pixel density (res) of screen, chip, dalvik versus ART, OS, etc. etc. all play a roll in power usage. Just nice to see that “significant savings in power consumption” verbiage used in 1 of those aspects since the tech is evolving. In the end, every bit that we can get that claims “significant savings in power consumption” ends in significant savings in power consumption.
“We imagine they’re referring to none other than the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the Samsung Galaxy S6.”
Yeah, but do you think it will be in the Samsung Galaxy S6?
A 14nm ARMv8 SoC will be amazing. Would be nice to see a quick trump on the 20nm A8.
Exynos 7420 14nm 64bit processor vs Snapdragon 810 20nm 64bit processor Winner Exynos that’s flat out.
And you know this because you can see the future? Oh right, you’re the guy who “knew” the S4 (and later, the Note 3) would come with a flexible display and a sensor that could read blood pressure/sugar levels.