Samsung pulled off a surprise when it opted against using any Qualcomm chipset this year for its flagship smartphones – the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge. Instead the company opted for it in-house made Exynos 7 Octa 7420 and so far it has been a success story for the new powerhouse chipset.
The South Korean company is rumoured to be already working on the next flagship Exynos SoC. According to different speculation, Samsung wouldn’t be using the Cortex-A72 cores for its SoC instead it would opt for custom made cores. The custom made cores would be manufactured using the 14nm FinFET technology and is codenamed Mongoose.
For 64-bit functionality, Mongoose would employ ARMv8 Architecture and the maximum clock speed of the core is 2.3GHz. The cores has been put to pace on GeekBench 3 Benchmark – the mongoose has a single-core score of 2200 point to the single-core score of the Exynos 7420 which is 1495 points (that’s around 47% faster).
With the new Exynos SoC, Samsung could have the most power-packed processor in the mobile ecosystem yet. Mongoose is an animal which prey on Snakes, even the venomous ones – Cobra. It is ironic because Qualcomm names it’s cores ‘Krait’ – a very venomous Asian snake of the Cobra family.
There is no official confirmation on the existence of the Mongoose custom cores from Samsung. But if the above rumour turns out true then the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 5 would be powered by the upcoming SoC.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, as this is all rumours for now. We will bring more information once it becomes available.
Source: PhoneArena
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