14 DAY TRIAL // Right after the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, which take advantage of the company’s own Exynos 7420 platform, rumors started going around that the Korean tech giant was looking to build its own custom CPU cores codenamed Mongoose.
The thing is, Samsung wants to reduce reliance on third-party helpers such as ARM. So come next year, the company will be working with a chip taking advantage of custom cores which will replace ARM’s Cortex A72 cores.
Previous leaks revealed quite a few details about Mongoose, including the fact that the cores will be clocked at 2.3GHz. The chip supporting them has already been put through Geekbench and already scored 2,200 points in the single-core test. Which amounts to a 45% increase over the current Exynos 7420.
Anyway, today, the folks at Kit Guru reveal that the latest development tools for ARM cores, which include support for ARM Cortex (A17, A72) cores also support a certain Samsung Exynos M1 core (which is the same as Mongoose).
Samsung's next-gen Exynos chip existence gets confirmed
This confirms what we already knew, that Samsung is in the process of developing its new CPU cores for its upcoming mobile devices and that the company’s software development partners are already tinkering with it as well.
The report goes on to stipulate that mass production of the chip could being in 9 to 12 months from now, which sounds just about right for when the Galaxy S7 should go on sale sometime around March-April 2016.
It’s also possible that the Exynos M1 will bundle Heterogeneous System Architecture and use GPU stream processors for general purpose processing.
Since Samsung is a member of the HSA Foundation which groups under its umbrella the industry’s leading silicone providers including AMD, ARM, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm, around a common goal for heterogeneous processing, it all seems to be pretty clear.
We’re also told that the upcoming Samsung Exynos chips with M1 cores will be used in upcoming smartphones, tablets, media players, TV-sets and other consumer-oriented electronics.
So come next year’s MWC edition, Samsung will probably be ready to unveil a Galaxy S7 model taking advantage of a chip built entirely in-house. If everything goes according to schedule, that is.
