According to India's import/export web site Zauba, Samsung has shipped a pair of boards into the country for testing. Perhaps this isn't the most exciting news of the day in the wireless industry, except for one major part of the story that we haven't mentioned until now. Contained on both test boards is the unannounced Exynos 8895 SoC.
Producing the Exynos 8895 is no different than Qualcomm's introduction earlier this month of the Snapdragon 821 chipset. While still employing a quad-core CPU using Qualcomm's home grown Kryo cores, clock speed is 10% to 25% faster on the Snapdragon 821. The speed of the high-performance cluster on the Snapdragon 821 rises to 2.4GHz from 2.2GHz on the current chip. The battery saving cluster rises from 1.6GHz on the Snapdragon 820 chip to 2.0GHz on the Snapdragon 821 SoC. Qualcomm's next major Snapdragon release is expected to be the 830 chipset.
In the same vein, we don't expect the Exynos 8895 to be Sammy's next major chip which means we wouldn't expect to find it powering the Samsung Galaxy S8 next year.
The Exynos 8895 chipset appears on India's import-export site Zauba
Alan, an ardent smartphone enthusiast and a veteran writer at PhoneArena since 2009, has witnessed and chronicled the transformative years of mobile technology. Owning iconic phones from the original iPhone to the iPhone 15 Pro Max, he has seen smartphones evolve into a global phenomenon. Beyond smartphones, Alan has covered the emergence of tablets, smartwatches, and smart speakers.
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