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发帖数: 261 | 1 http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151111006526/en/Samsung
SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world
leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced the newest
member of its Exynos family of application processors, the Exynos 8 Octa
8890. This chip is Samsung’s second premium application processor built on
14nm FinFET process technology. Unlike the previous Exynos 7 Octa 7420, the
Exynos 8 Octa is an integrated one-chip solution that features the company’
s first custom designed CPU based on 64-bit ARMv8 architecture and the
latest LTE Rel.12 Cat.12/13 modem. This brings a new level of performance to
Samsung’s Exynos processor premium line-up for mobile applications.
“With our custom designed CPU cores 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.”
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“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 cores 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.”
The Exynos 8 Octa is Samsung’s first application processor to include the
company’s initial premium custom CPU cores based on 64-bit ARMv8
architecture providing over 30 percent improvement in performance and 10
percent in power efficiency compared to the Exynos 7 Octa. This chip also
supports enhanced heterogeneous multi-processing for efficient usage of the
eight cores, four custom and four ARM® Cortex®-A53, to deliver the
highest performance and power efficiency in its class.
The Exynos 8 Octa is Samsung’s first integrated one-chip solution in its
premium line-up that combines the application processor and modem. Samsung
has delivered one-chip Exynos solutions for mid to high-end smartphones in
recent years. The Exynos 8 Octa integrates the most advanced LTE Rel.12 Cat.
12/13 modem that enables maximum download speed of up to 600Mbps (Cat.12)
and upload speed of up to 150Mbps (Cat.13) with carrier aggregation. With
such a high data transfer rate, the Exynos 8 Octa will contribute to
delivering an excellent mobile experience, allowing users to enjoy and share
high resolution video content on the go with ease. Also the one-chip
solution benefits OEMs with a reduced number of parts needed and overall
space required for a device, allowing more flexible design options.
For a graphic-intensive user interface, highly immersive 3D gaming and life-
like virtual reality experiences, the Exynos 8 Octa employs ARM®’s
latest GPU, Mali™-T880.
Samsung plans to begin mass production of the Exynos 8 Octa in late 2015.
For more information about Samsung’s Exynos products, please visit www.
samsung.com/exynos. | f*******2
发帖数: 341 | | l***n
发帖数: 376 | 3 早说了一半一半。820还不是cat12.
【在 f*******2 的大作中提到】
: 棒子真是靠不住，不是说要用820么？
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发帖数: 341 | 4 Samsung Threatens Qualcomm, Inc. With the Exynos 8890
Link: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/11/13/samsung-threatens-qualcomm-inc-with-the-exynos-889.aspx?source=eogyholnk0000001&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article
Samsung is making serious progress in advancing its chip designs for the
high end of the mobile market.
Shortly after Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) announced its next--generation
Snapdragon 820 applications processor, Samsung (NASDAQOTH:SSNLF) went ahead
and announced its next high-end applications processor known as the Exynos
8890.
The 8890 is interesting for a couple of a reasons. Firstly, it is the first
Samsung applications processor to employ CPU cores that are Samsung-
architected rather than ARM (NASDAQ:ARMH) designed. Samsung says that these
custom CPU cores lead to a 30% boost in performance over the ARM Cortex A57
cores inside of the previous Exynos 7420 and 10% better power efficiency.
Next, Samsung says that it is employing ARM's latest Mali-T880MP12 graphics
architecture. This is quite a significant jump up from the graphics
processor used in the prior-generation Exynos 7420 and I suspect that the
use of this IP should allow for best-in-class high-end graphics performance
from this chipset.
And finally, perhaps the most interesting aspect of this SoC is the fact
that it integrates a Cat. 12/13 LTE-Advanced modem. This puts Samsung's
feature-set right on par with Qualcomm's latest X12 LTE solution, which can
be had in both stand-alone baseband form as well as in an integrated
applications processor.
The biggest loser here seems to be Qualcomm
Although there is significant chatter on the Web suggesting that Qualcomm
will be able to win back a spot inside Samsung's upcoming flagship phones
with its Snapdragon 820, it looks as though Samsung is committed long term
to trying to develop flagship-class applications processors that go toe to
toe with Qualcomm's top processors across the board.
There may yet be some strategic benefit for Samsung to use the Snapdragon
820. For example, if Qualcomm agrees to use Samsung's foundry (allowing
Samsung to profit from Snapdragon 820 chips sold to other smartphone vendors
), Samsung could agree to use its applications processors in a portion of
its smartphones.
However, I'm not particularly optimistic about Qualcomm's long-term chances
in Samsung flagships at this point, especially since Samsung seems to be
doing very well in implementing the latest modem feature. Frankly, at this
point, I wonder if Samsung might actually get more aggressive in trying to
compete directly with Qualcomm as a merchant applications processor vendor (
though Samsung's position as a major smartphone vendor might be off-putting
to many potential customers).
Mass production later this year implies early 2016 launch in the Galaxy S7
According to the Samsung press release, the Exynos 8890 will go into mass
production late this year. For the sake of argument, let's assume that they
start production on Dec. 1.
The typical time for a wafer to be fully processed in a fab is around 90
days, and after packaging the chips, it's not unreasonable to expect it to
take about four to five months from production start to products in
significant quantities on the shelves.
Assuming that Samsung plans to use the Exynos 8890 in its Galaxy S7, it
would seem reasonable to expect the Galaxy S7 to be available in the March/
April time frame given the aforementioned chip manufacturing time estimates.
This contradicts some of the reports that claim Samsung will launch the
Galaxy S7 in the January time frame. |
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