Samsung begins mass production of its Exynos 7420 SoC

Since the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S3, the Korean manufacturer has always relied on Qualcomm to make Samsung's flagships geared towards the European market beat. Until now.

Samsung did not like too much the controversy surrounding the Snapdragon 810 processor, so it preferred to heal itself and invest in its own range of Exynos processors. And his Star SoC, the Exynos 7420, is already in mass production.

Samsung already mass-produced the Exynos 7420 processor with eight cores and 64-bit architecture

We already knew that Qualcomm would shortly activate all the machinery to produce its Snapdragon 810 processor on a large scale during the month of March and Samsung was missing its turn. until now. and the manufacturer has already announced that its Exynos 7420 processor is being mass produced.

It must be remembered that this SoC will be the one chosen to make the next flagship of the Korean manufacturer beat, in addition to the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. And for this Samsung has put all the meat on the grill.

The first benchmarks comparing the Exynos 7420 processor with the Snapdragon 810 SoC show that ehe Korean manufacturer is very close to reaching the level achieved by Qualcomm.

And is that Samsung has worked very well the design of its new star processor. Proof of this is that the Exynos 7420 is built thanks to an advanced 14 nm architecture. This type of architecture offers an improvement in performance and a reduction in consumption.

Proof of this is that the fabricnate has also announced that have managed to increase their energy efficiency between 30% and 35% compared to the previous generation of processors, in addition to increasing performance and reducing battery consumption.

To achieve these qualities, Samsung factories model the circuits of the processors Exynos 7420 using a 3D process. “FinFET transistors can offer lower power consumption and higher device performance, but they also bring tough challenges”Reports Myung Kyu-Choi, Vice President of the Samsung Electronics Design Center.