Dr Kyushik Hong, vice president of System LSI marketing, Samsung Electronics, said: “With our custom designed CPU cores and the industry’s most advanced LTE modem, consumers using mobile devices with the Exynos 8 Octa will experience a new level of mobile computing."
The Exynos 8 Octa is Samsung’s first application processor to include the company’s initial premium custom CPU cores which are claimed to provide over 30% improvement in performance and 10% in power efficiency compared to the previous Exynos 7 Octa. The chip also supports enhanced heterogeneous multi-processing for efficient usage of the eight cores to deliver what Samsung claims is the highest performance and power efficiency in its class.
The chip’s modem is said to enable maximum download speed of up to 600Mbps (Cat.12) and upload speed of up to 150Mbps (Cat.13) with carrier aggregation. Also the one-chip solution is said to benefit OEMs with a reduced number of parts needed and overall space required for a device, allowing more flexible design options.
