Samsung could come out with a similar version of the Exynos 8890 but it can’t be said for sure unless there’s some official confirmation from the company. It appears to be a bit implausible because Samsung won’t really be competing against the Snapdragon 823 with the Exynos 8890, which is its flagship high-end processor. Because no new Exynos processor has arrived after this one it’s likely that Samsung might not opt for the Snapdragon 823 for the Galaxy Note 6. There’s not a lot of information available on the SD823 right now but it’s believed to be the same as the Snapdragon 820 model running on a higher clock. The latest, originating from China, suggests that the Galaxy Note 6 will be powered by a 64-bit Kryo 2.6GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 823 processor with Adreno 530 GPU and up to 8GB of RAM. The Snapdragon 820 is expected to be released in the fall, with smartphones powered by the chip rolling out in the first half of 2016.Samsung isn’t due to unveil the Galaxy Note 6 until the fall but rumors and reports are already coming in about the company’s next-generation phablet. For example, he said, when he takes a photo with his smartphone, Symphony ensures “that the right components are powered up running at the needed frequency and only as long as needed.” “Symphony is designed to manage the entire system-on-chip in different configurations so that the most efficient and effective combination of processors and specialized cores are chosen to get the job done as quickly as possible, with the least amount of power,” he wrote. The better management of that process, the more performance and power savings that can be achieved, Shedd wrote. Qualcomm officials also unveiled Qualcomm Symphony System Manager to help manage the heterogeneous computing on the chip, where more tasks are spread among the different components. In addition, because of its high performance and low power capabilities, the Snapdragon 820 can also be used in automotive and other mobile applications in the embedded space, he wrote. “The 820 is engineered with custom-built, highly optimized cores designed for heterogeneous computing-the ability to combine different functional cores of the system-on-chip (SoC), like the CPU, GPU and DSP cores, to achieve previously unattainable performance and power savings, rather than using the same core for different tasks,” Shedd wrote. Essentially the chip can use all of the components-CPU, GPU, DSP and ISP-depending on the need of the application. It’s also integrated with the Adreno 530 GPU and Hexagon 680 DSP to facilitate the heterogeneous computing. Kyro is a 14-nanometer CPU with speeds up to 2.2GHz and a FinFET transistor architecture for higher performance.
“Higher performance is often at odds with longer battery life-but that’s what we’ve engineered into the first generation of Kyro.” The company engineered the CPU because “customization means being able to meet the needs of consumers without compromising on performance or battery life,” Shedd posted on the company blog. Qualcomm had used an off-the-shelf ARM CPU design for the Snapdragon 810 to accelerate the company’s move to 64-bit capabilities, but CEO Steve Mollenkopf in late January said that for the 820, the company was returning to a custom core design. However, the loss of Samsung is what caught the industry’s attention. Qualcomm executives noted that despite the loss of the large customer, there were still more than 60 design wins from other device makers. Qualcomm is banking on the Snapdragon 802 to make 2016 better than this year, which started on a difficult note when it was learned that Samsung would not use the Snapdragon 810 chip in its new Galaxy S6 smartphone reportedly due to overheating issues. It also is a way of bringing twice the performance and twice the power efficiency of its predecessor to high-end smartphones, according to Mark Shedd, director of marketing at Qualcomm. Now they are opening up about Kyro, Qualcomm’s first custom-designed 64-bit CPU and a key part of its larger heterogeneous computing strategy for enabling mobile devices to better handle such workloads as imaging and virtual reality. Qualcomm officials over the past several weeks have talked about the machine learning capabilities the company is bringing to the processor for improved security, as well as released information about the next generation of Qualcomm’s Adreno GPU and Spectra camera image signal processor (ISP) and its Hexagon digital signal processor (DSP).
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