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Samsung moving away from custom CPU cores for its Exynos processors

There were reports online last month that Samsung is moving away from designing custom CPU cores for its Exynos processors and has laid off the entire team behind the project at its R&D Center in Austin. The company has now confirmed this news through a WARN letter filed with the Texas Workforce Commission. According to […]

By Naresh
5 years ago

Samsung’s Exynos processors may never be the same again

Samsung has used its own Exynos processors for flagship smartphones in addition to Qualcomm chips since as far as you may remember. Qualcomm-based variants are sold in limited markets like the United States and China whereas the Exynos variants are distributed across the globe. The Exynos chips have featured Samsung's custom Mongoose cores for a […]

By Adnan Farooqui
5 years ago

Samsung to mass produce Exynos 8890 for Galaxy S7 from December

There has been a lot of buzz around Samsung's upcoming mobile processor, the Exynos 8890. Starting Q1 2016, it will go head-to-head with the best SoCs in the industry including Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 and Apple's A9X. In the previous weeks, we reported that Samsung is in the process of optimising its chipset for better performance as […]

By Daniel van Dorp
9 years ago

Samsung is preparing a brand new Exynos processor for its mid-range devices

Samsung has been in the smartphone SoC business since the Galaxy S days, rivalling the likes of Qualcomm, Intel, Texas Instruments, and MediaTek. The company's Exynos chipsets have improved a lot from their initial days, be it in terms of raw power or efficiency and features. The Exynos 7420 processor, which has been used in the […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
9 years ago

Samsung rumored to launch three Galaxy S7 variants, each with a different processor

We had reported yesterday that Samsung is currently optimising its brand new Exynos 8890 SoC with Mongoose CPU cores for better performance, and that it might be used in the Galaxy S7 next year. Now, we are back with yet another important piece of information regarding the Galaxy S7 and the chipsets that might be used in different […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
9 years ago

Samsung’s Mongoose SoC benchmarks leak, shows incredible performance

As we reported earlier, Samsung is working on a new Exynos processor that has a new CPU architecture dubbed Mongoose (also called Exynos M1). Similar to Qualcomm and Apple, Samsung is developing custom CPU cores for better performance and efficiency. It could be the Exynos 8890 processor, but we are not too sure about the model number […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
9 years ago

Samsung’s upcoming SoC with Mongoose CPU cores showcases dominating performance

Earlier this year, we reported that Samsung is working on a new processor that uses the company's homegrown custom CPU core instead of stock ARM Cortex CPU cores. Now, benchmark scores of this upcoming processor have surfaced on the Internet, and it hints towards a dominating performance. According to an image leaked out of China, the upcoming […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
9 years ago

Samsung’s custom CPU cores will likely be called Exynos M1

Almost all the smartphones and tablets that are sold in the market these days utilize processors that are based on ARM's reference designs. Unlike Samsung, MediaTek, and Nvidia, Qualcomm and Apple use customised CPU cores in their mobile SoC offerings. These custom designed cores have shown plenty of evidence of being relatively more power-efficient and faster than processors based on ARM's […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
10 years ago

Samsung’s next-gen Exynos chip to feature custom ‘Mongoose’ CPU cores

Samsung started reducing its dependancy on Qualcomm by completely moving to its own Exynos 7420 processor for its recently released smartphones, the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge. The South Korean electronics giant has been bringing consistent improvements to its home-baked chipset every six months, be it on the CPU, GPU, or connectivity front. According to AnTuTu's […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
10 years ago

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