The Exynos 8890 may be the first chipset from Samsung to come with custom CPU cores which are rumoured to be codenamed ‘M1’
Samsung may start mass producing the Exynos 8890 chipset in early December, in order to make it available for the Q1 2016 launch of the Samsung Galaxy S7. The new chipset may be the first SoC from Samsung to feature custom CPU cores, rumoured to be codenamed ‘M1’. As of now, only major chipset manufacturers like Intel, Qualcomm, and the likes produce custom CPU cores. It is also rumoured that the company is busy testing and finalizing the Exynos 8890, while also working to bring out the best in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 SoC.
The benchmark scores of the Samsung Exynos 8890 running on a device called Lucky-LTE had leaked on GeekBench last month. As per the leak, the chipset managed to get a single core score of 1336 and a multi core score of 4824. AnTuTu scores of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 had leaked last month. As per the leak, the chipset managed to get a score of 83,774 on a device named Green Orange X1 Pro.
It was earlier reported that Samsung had preponed the launch of the Galaxy S7 to January, in order to better compete with the Apple iPhone 6s and the 6s Plus. The upcoming flagship device was also tipped to be launched in premium and sub-premium variants. It is also possible that the new device might sport a pressure-sensitive display similar to 3D Touch, found on the new iPhones. Samsung has already filed a patent for a pressure-sensitive display. Other rumours suggest that the device might comes with a dual-camera setup, along with a USB Type-C port.
Huawei is also getting ready to launch the Kirin 950 SoC on November 5. According to previous rumours, the chipset might come with an octa-core processor. It is expected to come with two quad-core clusters, with four cores based on ARM’s Cortex-A72 architecture clocked at 2.4GHz, while the other four may use the Cortex A57 architecture. The chipset has also been tipped to use a Mali-T880 GPU and may support 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM. The chipset managed to get single-core and multi-core scores of 1909 and 6096 respectively, on GeekBench.
Source: Business Korea
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