Samsung reportedly Working on LTE Cat. 10 modem for next Exynos SoC

Reports coming out of Korean Media suggests that Samsung is considering packing LTE Cat. 10 on its next Exynos chipset and would power Its devices starting next year. The modem is heavily tipped to come in the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S6 flagship. 

Now that LTE Cat. 6 is now becoming a thing of the old as more and more devices are now using the modem on its devices. While the LTE Cat.6 offers up to 300Mbps downlink the upcoming Cat. 10 is said to up its antics up to 450Mbps or more.

Although Qualcomm has announced a chipset which would pack the Cat.10 modem, it would not be making its debut anytime soon as the its next upcoming 64-bit enabled Snapdragon 810 would still feature the Cat.6 modem. There has been recent murmuring suggesting Samsung is working on a fully in-house chipset which would feature the company’s own CPU and GPU.

Samsung’s first in-house produced modem, the Exynos 303 modem debuted on the Exynos 5430. Samsung would definitely be ahead of Qualcomm in terms of delivering LTE Cat.10 on its processors. Another talking point is if the company’s own GPU can match the Adreno 430 GPU or at least match the Mali T760-based GPU.

For a start Samsung would still rely on Qualcomm for processor for some of its flagship devices until it’s chip division is self sufficient enough to match it’s needs. There are slim chances that Samsung would be self sufficient in terms of providing every component needed it’s it’s devices.

This means good news for Samsung fan boys as the upcoming Galaxy S6 flagship is shrouded in more mystery. Could the Samsung Galaxy S6 be LTE Cat.10 enabled? Or it would only feature Samsung’s Exynos chipset as against any Qualcomm model, only time will tell.