Almost all the smartphones and tablets that are sold in the market these days utilize processors that are designed 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 proofs of being relatively more power-efficient and faster than processors based reference design.
We’ve known since quite some time that Samsung is working on custom CPU cores for its next-generation Exynos chipset, but it is for the first time that we’ve seen any visible proof of that. Reference to Exynos M1 has been added in the latest development tools for ARM cores, which could be the final name for Mongoose CPU cores that we reported about earlier this month. This shows that Samsung is hard at work to further improve their home-grown Exynos SoC line-up to better compete with Qualcomm’s ‘Kryo’ and Apple’s ‘Cyclone’ CPU cores.
It has been just a month since the introduction of the Galaxy S6 and the S6 edge, and software development partners are already toying with them. Traditionally, developers receive first samples for microprocessors 9 to 12 months before the mass production, which hints towards Samsung’s plans to release its next-generation SoC with the Galaxy S7. According to some reports, the next-generation Exynos chipset is said to be 45 percent faster than the Exynos 7420. Samsung is also working on its own GPU, which could be combined with the Exynos M1 cores in its next-generation mobile processor.
This year turned out bad for Qualcomm since Snapdragon 810, its flagship mobile chipset for 2015, was riddled with overheating issues. Due to these issues, Samsung decided to go overboard with Exynos 7420 for the Galaxy S6 and the S6 edge. It would be interesting to see how Exynos M1-based chipsets battle it out with with Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 and Apple A9.
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