Samsung is completely hard at work on its upcoming flagship -the Galaxy S8 and predictably, the device will use both Exynos and Snapdragon processors. The Samsung Exynos 8895 SoC has been confirmed for use on the S8 and a report from China says the chipset could be built in multiple variants.
The Samsung Exynos 8895 SoC will be manufactured using the company’s 10nm FinFET process (same used on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835) and features 4x Exynos M2 CPU cores and 4x Cortex-A53 cores. The two variants of the chipset cited are the Exynos 8895M and Exynos 8895V.
The Exynos 8895M will pack four Exynos M2 CPU cores clocked at 2.5GHz and the other four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.7GHz while the Exynos 8895V differs with it’s own M2 CPU cores clocked at 2.3GHz. Both will use ARM’s latest GPU – the Mali-G71 (550MHz) but in different configurations – 20-core variant on the former and 18-core on the latter.
Expected to arrive in Q2 2017, both variants – Exynos 8895M and Exynos 8895V will support the fast UFS 2.1 storage, integrated Cat. 16 LTE modems and LPDDR4 RAM. A third variant with updated Shannon 359 modem compatible with CDMA networks is expected to debut by Q3 2017.
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