Samsung announces new 14nm Exynos 7 Octa SoC for upcoming mid-rangers

When we’re talking about Samsung SoCs these days, more often than not we’re thinking about something along the lines of the Exynos 8 Octa, the advanced chip slated to power the upcoming Galaxy S7 in select markets. And while that’s clearly the future of Samsung flagships, there’s still plenty of life left in the old Exynos 7 Octa line, ...

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Analyst group names Samsung Exynos 7 Octa 2015’s best mobile processor

With Qualcomm pretty clearly out of contention for the title of last year’s fastest and most reliable smartphone SoC, due to Snapdragon 810’s highly publicized overheating woes and SD808’s sub-flagship capabilities, you have to figure Samsung and Apple ultimately disputed the crown.Technically, Nvidia could have posed a threat too, but its otherwise impressive

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Samsung beefs up Galaxy A8 with upgraded Exynos SoC

Changes are coming to Samsung’s lineup of Galaxy A smartphones, and one week ago we saw the manufacturer introduce the latest batch of phones to wear that label, the new 2016 editions of the Galaxy A3, A5, and A7. Those refreshes had been a long time coming, with the original A3 and A5 launching all the way back in October of last year, but it now looks like even some more recent Galaxy ...

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Samsung updates SoC branding, announces Exynos 7 Octa

It was back in early June when we first started talking about Samsung’s Exynos 5433, the latest upgrade to the company’s line of SoCs. Among the many devices those early 5433 rumors were tied to was the Galaxy Note 4, and sure enough, that’s the chip that powers the international version of Samsung’s new phablet. So far, all the various Exynos 5400-series chips have been Exynos 5 Octas of one kind or another – ...

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