South Korean multinational conglomerate company Samsung on Wednesday unveiled its latest mobile processor – the Exynos 7 Octa 7870. According to Samsung Tomorrow, the company expects to provide mobile manufacturers an ideal mobile System-on-Chip (SoC) option for mid-range smartphones with leading-edge performance and power efficiency, and area scaling benefits.
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Samsung also announced its newest flagship chip namely the Exynos 8 Octa 8890.
The Exynos 7 Octa 7870 is in mass production now, which means it should start showing up in consumer devices sooner rather than later. This chipset deploys the advanced 14nm FinFET process technology and is designed in such a manner that it can be deployed in next-gen mobile devices easily.
This marks the first time the 14nm FinFET process is being deployed for a SoC that will power midrange handsets. 6 2CA modem compatible with FDD-TDD (Frequency Division Duplex and Time Division Duplex) joint carrier aggregation technology that supports up to 300Mbps downlink speeds. This is actually airily reminiscent of the Exynos 7 Octa 7580, which uses the same arrangement of cores, but is built on a much less efficient 28nm process.
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Nowadays, customers are looking for characteristics such as power efficiency and better performance, which are the prime gains of switching to 14nm technology and that’s why Samsung is taking advantage of this opportunity. Samsung didn’t mention the GPU, which we surmise is an ARM Mali T830, but did say the chip supports 1080p video playback at 60 frames per second and a WUXGA (1920×1200) display resolution. Its image signal processor (ISP) delivers high resolution images – up to 16 megapixels for both rear and front cameras, or 8Mp each in dual camera mode. The Samsung’s latest chipset also offers GNSS solution for more accurate and rapidly transitioning location based services.
