Samsung has unveiled the Exynos 8 Octa 8890 chipset with a modem and processor combined in a single package that’s been described as a phenomenal discovery, according to My Home Gadgets.

The South Korean tech giant officially launched the new chip recently. Compared to the Exynos 7 Octa 7420, the design of the new Exynos 8 is based on 64-bit ARMv8 architecture with four other Cortex-A53s that make it more powerful than its predecessors.

The custom-made CPU cores of the Exynos 8 was built using 14 nm FinFET technology and is an exclusive feature no other chips have. As a result, the Exynos 8 is 30 percent better in performance and 10 percent more powerful than Exynos 7.

Samsung has manufactured similar power-packed chips in the past, but none can match the new powerhouse chip. Exynos 8 octa 8890 boasts of an LTE Rel.12 Cat.12/13 modem that unleashes bandwidths never produced before. Consequently, the upload speed reaches 150 Mbps and download speed is a high 600 Mbps.

Indeed, with the ARM Mali-T880 GPU, the chipset is likely to offer excellent graphics. Samsung will begin mass production by late 2015, but new rumours suggest that production has already started.

The predecessor Exynos 7 octa 7420 chip was used in the S6 Edge, S6 and Note 5. The Exynos 8, however, will possibly appear in the Galaxy S7, and could be in the Galaxy Note 6 later in 2016.

Samsung’s head of mobile and telecoms at IHS Technology, Ian Fogg said the initiative will help the company become more profitable, reports CNBC.

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