Exynos 7 Phone
Samsung Electronics is going to use the octa-core Exynos 7 processor in the Galaxy S6, which is scheduled to be released early next year. With the release date approaching, images of the new model are being revealed.
According to Samsung on Oct. 16, the System LSI business will mass produce its own application processor (AP) starting late this year using the production process of 14 nm FinFETs, which is going to be used in the Galaxy S6.
The octa-core Exynos 7 processor is composed of four high-performance Cortex-A57 ARM chips and four low-power Cortex- A53 ARM chips. Thanks to an improved Mobile Image Compression (MIC) method, the AP has the best performance among the existing ones.
In addition, due to a new Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP) solution, which makes certain cores operate according to processing capabilities, the CPU cores perform 57 percent better compared to the octa-core Exynos 5 processor. Owing to the use of the Mali T-760 GPU, the processors' capability to handle graphically-rich tasks improves as much as 74 percent.
In particular, the new AP provides face and iris recognition solutions, and also delivers distinct performance when supporting an application needed to realize augmented reality. Therefore, an iris recognition technique is expected to be used in the Galaxy S6.