One of Samsung‘s most famous (or infamous) moves this year has been to use its own in-house manufactured Exynos processors instead of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 that is in pretty much every other flagship smartphone to be released this year. While the move seems to have paid off this year, it looks like Samsung is still considering Qualcomm as a source for processor chips in next year’s flagships – so much so that Samsung is already testing the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 which could end up in the Samsung Galaxy S7.
This much was already known to us from previous rumours, however it’s news to us that Samsung is already testing the processor so early – it’s likely this early testing that Samsung did on the Snapdragon 810 that alerted it to what it saw as potential issues. Of course, the bottom line is that these tests are likely going to help Samsung decide between the Snapdragon 820 and another of its own Exynos processors, but frankly we don’t care as long as it runs smoothly and doesn’t overheat.
What do you think about the fact Samsung is already testing the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
