Samsung Reveals New Exynos 7872 Chipset for Mid-Range Devices

Samsung has officially announced a new Exynos 5 series chipset designed for mid-range smartphones. Built on a 14nm FinFET manufacturing process, the new Exynos 7872 features a hexa-cadre processor.

The CPU includes two Cortex A73 cores clocked at 2.0 GHz coupled with four Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.6 GHz. For graphics processing, the chipset includes a Republic of mali-G71 MP1 GPU.

Samsung claims the Exynos 7872 delivers ii times better single-core performance, when compared to its concluding-gen counterpart. The updated architecture results in smooth multitasking, snappy internet browsing and app launch. The chipset will exist used in upcoming smartphones that support a maximum screen resolution of 1920×1200 pixels, making information technology a poor choice for high-end smartphones with a 18:9 Full HD+ display. The recently appear Meizu M6S will exist the first smartphone to feature the new chipset.

Meizu M6S will be the first smartphone to feature the new Exynos 7872 chipset.

Samsung's product folio details that the Exynos 7872 chipset can be coupled with LPDDR3 RAM and in terms of storage information technology'due south compatible with eMMC 5.i and SD iii.0. The chipset tin back up upwards to a 21.7 MP rear-facing camera and a 21.vii MP front-facing camera, suggesting that mid-range smartphones with the chipset might offer peachy camera performance. However, the chipset doesn't support dual rear cameras, and then don't expect portrait mode on smartphones powered by the Exynos 7872. In terms of video, the chipset is capable of encoding and decoding full HD 1080p video at 120fps with the HVEC and H.264 codec.

What's really interesting well-nigh the Exynos 7872 is the fact that information technology supports up to an eight MP iris photographic camera sensor, which suggests that mid-range smartphones of the futurity might feature the iris scanning tech that has been limited to flagship smartphones until at present.

Connectivity wise, the Exynos 7872 features a Category seven LTE modem with support for upwardly to 300 Mbps download and 150 Mbps upload speeds. It also includes support for dual band 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth v.0, FM Radio and NFC. For location services, the Exynos 7872 supports GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou and Galileo.