Another year, another new processor. Samsung has just officially announced the processor that is going to power its flagship smartphones – or at least, most of them – the Exynos 8890 and says that it has improved its performance by 30% and power efficiency by 10% over its predecessor, the Exynos 7420. Speaking about the Exynos 8 series, Samsung Vice President of System LSI marketing, Dr. Kyushik Hong,, said:
“The Exynos 8 Octa is a leading-edge application processor for next-generation mobile devices that incorporates Samsung’s mobile technology leadership in CPU, ISP, and modem as well as process technolog. With our custom designed CPU cores and the industry’s most advanced LTE modem, consumers using mobile devices with the Exynos 8 Octa will experience a new level of mobile computing.”
The Exynos 8 improves on the Exynos 7 formula by also incorporating LTE functionality onto the chip, which boasts download speeds of 600Mbps and uploads of 150Mbps. Samsung says that mass production of the chip will begin at the end of 2015, presumably ramping up to the release of the Samsung Galaxy S7, which will likely carry the Exynos 8890, depending on what region you’re in. We can’t wait to see some benchmark results, but we’re sure it’s going to give the Snapdragon 820 a run for its money.
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Source: Samsung Tomorrow via SamMobile
