Samsung has announced new Exynos 5 Series 7872 hexa-core processor based on 14-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology for mid-range smartphones. It has built-in LTE Cat.7 modem that would offer download speed of 300Mbps and supports aggregation of up to two carriers.
It has two 2.0GHz ARM Cortex-A73 and four 1.6GHz Cortex-A53 cores. “With the addition of powerful CPU, the Exynos 7872 improves the individual single-core performance by two folds, when compared to its predecessor, enabling faster web browsing, app launching and other operations on a smartphone in its class,” said the company.
It also supports out-focusing photography and a dual camera feature. “By combining the information from RGB and monochrome camera, the Exynos 7872 can create out-focus effect to make photographs more visually appealing,” added Samsung.
Highlights of Samsung Exynos 5 7872 SoC
- Hexa Core – 2.0GHz x 2 ARM Cortex-A73 CPUs + 1.6GHz x 4 ARM Cortex-A53 CPUs
- Mali-G71 MP1 GPU
- 14nm LPP FinFET process technology
- Cat 7 2CA download speeds of up to 300 Mbps, Cat.13 2CA upload speeds of up to 150Mbps (UL)
- up to WUXGA (1920×1200) display resolution
- Full HD 120fps encoding and decoding with HEVC(H.265), H.264 and VP8, and decoding with VP9
- Up to 21.7MP for both rear and front cameras, iris camera sensor up to 8MP, Out-focusing photography and a dual camera feature
- LPDDR3 memory, eMMC 5.1, SD 3.0
- CDMA, GSM, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, LTE-FDD and LTE-TDD modes
- Wi-Fi 802.11n (2.4GHz + 5GHz) , Bluetooth 5.0, FM Radio
- GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo) solution for more accurate and rapidly transitioning location based services.
Meizu M6s, that was introduced yesterday is the first smartphone with the processor. More mid-range Samsung smartphones with the processor are expected in the coming months.