Samsung is testing Snapdragon 820 intensively

Next year, Samsung may go back to Qualcomm processors for its high end devices. The company has reportedly started conducting intensive tests on Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 820 processors.

This year Samsung relied on their proprietary Exynos 7420 processor and did not opt for the Snapdragon 810 for their flagship devices. According to GSM Arena , the reason behind that were probably the heating issues and the negative feedback of the Snapdragon 810. But the company might again consider using the Snapdragon 820 processor.

According to a Korean publication, the Snapdragon 820 is being thoroughly tested in Samsung labs. These test results will determine if the Korean giant is going to use the upcoming Qualcomm processor for its flagship smartphone for 2016, the Galaxy S7.

A month ago, SamMobile reported that the company is testing Galaxy S7 with Exynos processor in few units and a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor in the rest of the units. Earlier reports also state that Samsung has changed its "Waterfall" methodology for its software development process and adopted "Agile" methods for Galaxy S7. This would lead to faster development of Galaxy S7 which is internally codenamed as "Jungfrau" and may house both Snapdragon and Exynos SoC in the device.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 is expected to be an improved version by 35 percent over its predecessor. It is supposed to feature a 64-bit quad-core CPU with 14nm FinFET, Adreno 530 GPU, LP-DDR4 RAM support, Cat. 10 LTE modem as well as support for 4K60 fps encode/decode, UFS and eMMC 5.1 storage solutions.

In the meantime, Qualcomm announced the Hexagon 680 DSP (digital signal processor) within the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor. The new mobile chip will make smartphones with improved camera especially in low-light photography, improved computing capabilities and enable better battery.

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