Leaks are now coming out of what’s in store for the future Samsung Galaxy handset iteration, the Samsung Galaxy S7. (Photo : YouTube/Mrwhosetheboss)
Samsung is reportedly using its old playbook in time for the Galaxy S7 release date in early 2016. The South Korean tech giant is likely to power its upcoming flagship with two different processing chips - the Snapdragon 820 and Exynos 7430.
Serving its Galaxy flagship is nothing new to Samsung. This was the case in the previous year and would have been with the Galaxy S6 that was rumored to pack a Snapdragon 810 CPU aside from an Exynos chip. But thermal issues with the 810 that Qualcomm was unable to resolve forced Samsung to go exclusive on its in-house chip powerhouse, which also became the case with the Galaxy Note 5.
But it looks like that the SD 820 is a better story and mainly it has no overheating problems like its predecessor so Samsung will once again employ its tried and tested horsepower. According to WCCF Tech, the reported 14nm FinFET process and hydra cores being attributed to the SD 820 prompted Samsung to take a serious second on its former chip partner.
In fact, an S7 prototype is reportedly being tested already and powering that device is the latest Qualcomm pride. This indicates that Snapdragon is en route to a big comeback in the Samsung Galaxy supply chain that could happen as early as first quarter of 2016.
But Samsung is not planning to power the Galaxy S7 on SD 820 alone. The company will also tap the expertise of its inside chip engineers. Likely joining as one of the S7 main engines is the 2.4GHz quad-core Exynos 7430 Hero, formerly codenamed Mongoose, WCCF Tech added on its report.
How powerful the Exynos 7430 is? The same report noted that the chip was the subject of a recent AnTuTu benchmark testing in which it reportedly scored 95,000 or much higher than the 85,000+ that the SD 820 registered before.
It is expected too that the 7430 Hero will deliver in overall performance - speed, power and energy efficiency. If indeed the Galaxy S7 will run both the SD 820 and Exynos 7430 Hero, the implementation will likely be market dependent like in previous cases. For example, key markets like the U.S. and UK will get the S7 on SD 820 while select locations like South Korea and Japan will get the S7 on 7430 Hero.
This should get confirmation on the Galaxy S7 release date in 2016 that reports said could be advanced by Samsung, happening in the immediate weeks after the Las Vegas CES in late January. The first Samsung 2016 flagship could also debut Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box.
