What is different about Samsung from other smartphone manufacturers? The South Korean giant produces a majority of its smartphone components in-house, including processors. We have seen the Exynos 7420 in the Samsung galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, the processor has reported exceptional performance, better than any Qualcomm or Mediatek chipset. The Exynos 7420 is based on Cortex A53 and A57 cores.
Now there are reports pointing towards the development of a custom core CPU design going on at Samsung.
The new chip is being hailed as Samsung Mongoose is built on an entirely different architecture and provides about 45% better single-core performance compared to the Exynos 7420. These new 64-bit chips would have clock speeds up to 2.3 GHz and will be based on ARM v8 instruction set. Further, the chips would be manufactured using the 14nm FinFET technology, same as the Exynos 7420.The first Mongoose chip, allegedly called the Exynos M1, might utilize a Heterogenous System Architecture.
The first set of Mongoose chips are likely to enter production in the next 9 to 12 months, as reports suggest. Samsung would be double careful with the chips, after the problems being faced by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 chipset.
If all goes well, we might get to see the new chipset on next year's flagship, the Galaxy S7.
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