Samsung announce Exynos 8 Octa 8890 flagship chip
The first component that goes into Samsung’s next flagship smartphone is now official. This week, Samsung took the wraps off of the Exynos 8 Octa 8890 chip. Exynos 8 Octa 8890 is built on 14nm FinFET fab technology and houses Samsung’s first custom CPU based on ARM’s 64-bit ARMv8 micro architecture, powerful Mali™–T880, LTE Rel.12 Cat.12/13 modem. Samsung plans to begin mass production of the Exynos 8 Octa in late 2015.
The CPU consists of four of Samsung’s custom cores and four ARM Cortex-A53 cores in big.LITTLE configuration. Samsung’s top of the line products usually employ high resolution Super AMOLED display panels and to do justice to these panels, the Mali-T880 GPU supports 4K UHD (4096×2160) & WQUXGA (3840×2400) display resolution. And to make internet usage snappier, the integrated modem supports download speed of up to 600Mbps (Cat.12) and upload speed of up to 150Mbps (Cat.13). With this much of sheer power inside, Exynos 8 Octa is 10% more power efficient than is predecessor, Exynos 7 Octa and delivers 30% better performance.
“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 technology,” said Dr. Kyushik Hong, Vice President of System LSI marketing, Samsung Electronics. “With our custom designed CPU core 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.”
