Samsung Introduced Exynos 7 Octa 7870 Soc For Smartphones

The south Korean multinational conglomerate company, Samsung, on Wednesday, unveiled its latest Exynos mobile processor, the Exynos 7 Octa 7870 (Exynos 7870). Some might find the name familiar as the processor was spotted in a recent benchmark result listing for the unannounced Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016) smartphone. Samsung announced that company will mass produce the SoC from the first quarter of 2016. The Exynos 7 Octa 7870 has been produced using the company's most advanced 14-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology.

Samsung explains that this new processor consumes over 30 percent less power than those SoCs made using the 28nm High-K Metal Gate process technology. The Exynos 7 Octa 7870 features eight Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.6GHz along with LTE Cat.6 2CA Modem that supports up to 300Mbps downlink speed. The processor can handle full-HD resolution video playback at 60 frames per second along with WUXGA (1920x1200 pixels) resolution display. Furthermore, the Exynos 7 Octa 7870 processor's Image Signal Processor or ISP delivers up to 16-megapixel resolution images for both front and rear cameras, or 8-megapixel each in dual camera mode. Also integrated is GNSS solution for the time-to-first-fix (TTFF) feature for more accurate location based services.

Ben K. Hur, Vice President of System LSI marketing, Samsung Electronics, said, "With increased performance and power efficiency, we anticipate the widespread adoption of our new Exynos 7 Octa 7870 into mid-tier mobile devices". He further said, "Consumers will experience enhanced performance as this is the first time a mobile application processor built on the advanced 14nm process is available for these types of smart mobile devices."

Unfortunately, no other details about the Exynos 7870 have been shared by Samsung at this time. Though, the 7870 processors has already been caught in a couple of upcoming company's benchmarks like Galaxy J7 (2016). If the info tabs from those benchmarks aren't lying, then Samsung's newest mid-range SoC features a 1.7 GHz octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU and a Mali-T830 GPU. The Exynos 7 Octa 7870 is probably meant to be the successor to the Exynos 7580 which has been seen in the first Galaxy J7 phone from last year. Hopefully, Samsung will decide to share every single tidbit about the 7870 once the new J7 unveiling becomes official.