So will the market for mobile SoC 2016

The System on a Chip are a type of chip that incorporates most of the electronics that need a smartphone. In it, we find a large number of processors, which can highlight the CPU (Central Processing Unit), GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) and the modem.

These chips are mainly based on ARM architecture, which is licensed to several manufacturers, that reference projects to launch their chips or create your own variations.

In recent years, we have seen everything. Qualcomm known to defeat Texas Instruments, Samsung ambitious without increasing in popularity ever more dedicated for the manufacture of MediaTek chips or polishing passed from generation to generation errors.

2016 chips

Throughout this long history, it highlights a small portion of time that Qualcomm has been a true champion, remaining dominant in the final, with its Krait architecture. Since the departure of 800 Snapdragon do a couple of years, the company has found some bumps, which has given numerous opportunities to companies to fight for the throne in relation to mobile processors.

We now know some details like the main benchmarks of chips that will fight for position 2,016 chips, and competition can not be more diverse.

Samsung Exynos M1

Samsung Exynos

The first model we see is that of Samsung. The South Korean company has achieved great success thanks to the Exynos 7420, SoC found in Galaxy S6 and became the first phone to include a chip manufactured in 14nm FinFET process.

In 2016, rumors suggest that the company is working on its own architecture called Mongoose, also based on a 14nm process, but with great performance improvements Jan, because this architecture would be 45% faster than the current. According to leaks in Geekbench, new chip from Samsung has a score of 2136 points in single thread, and 7497 points in multi-thread.

On the other hand, the true potential of Samsung not in their designs, but in its semiconductor factories, which are showing exceptional performance, which may prove to manufacture chips Apple, Nvidia and Qualcomm, as well as your own. Not to say that even the very Qualcomm could give manufacturing Samsung Snapdragon in a strategic move.

Apple A9 and A9X


Apple has always been full of controversies company, as it tends to focus more on your own details in place the specifications of war. Since 2010, Apple is dedicated to designing its own chips based on the most advanced ARM architectures, but with cuts in the number of cores and frequencies.

The A9 would be the next chips, which come later in the year for the iPhone this year. There are doubts about whether it will be manufactured by Samsung on a 14nm process by TSMC in 16nm or so, but what is almost certain to be based on the Cortex A72 architecture 1.5GHz model, obtaining scores 2090-2109 and 3659-5101 mononuclear , so we believe that there will be a 2-core model and one of 3. All this accompanied, if they continue with tradition, the latest generation of GPUs PowerVr.