Samsung Exynos 8890 with custom cores for Galaxy S7 said to enter mass production in December

Samsung’s Octa-Core Exynos 8890 SoC also called the Exynos M1 with custom CPU cores surfaced in benchmarks last month. There were reports that Samsung is also testing Snapdragon 820 SoC for the upcoming Galaxy S7 flagship smartphone and it might also release another variant with the high-end Snapdragon processor that will release sometime in the first half of 2016. Continue reading “Samsung Exynos 8890 with custom cores for Galaxy S7 said to enter mass production in December”

Samsung Exynos 8890 Octa-Core SoC surfaces in benchmarks, could be Exynos M1

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Samsung Lucky-LTE the company’s upcoming 4G smartphone has surfaced on Geekbench (Via). According to the listing, the smartphone packs an Octa-Core Exynos 8890 SoC clocked at 1.38 GHz and the chip is based on ARMv8 architecture. Since this has new ARM implementer 83 architecture, it could be Exynos M1 with custom CPU cores, as rumored earlier. Continue reading “Samsung Exynos 8890 Octa-Core SoC surfaces in benchmarks, could be Exynos M1”