LONDON: It is rumors about upcoming galaxy brand Samsung U turn will be soon available in market. Samsung has decided to drop Qualcomm’s next generation 64-bit Snapdragon 810 chipset from the radically reinvented Galaxy S6
It isn’t just consumers who get nervous near major handset launches, stress levels at the major manufacturers go through the roof. And it appears patience at Samsung over perhaps the most important part of the Galaxy S6 has snapped.
Samsung has decided to drop Qualcomm’s next generation 64-bit Snapdragon 810 chipset from the radically reinvented Galaxy S6 due to ongoing problems with overheating. Instead Bloomberg claims Samsung will use its own Exynos chips.
As Android’s biggest selling handset range this is not only a major blow to Qualcomm, who declined to comment on the situation, but a potentially major risk for Samsung. The company produces Exynos powered versions of most of its major devices, but has never taken them outside its native South Korea .
Exynos chipsets have traditionally had different strengths and weaknesses compared to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon range. Exynos tends to pull ahead in raw computation performance, but gets consistently beaten graphically – a concern given Android 5.0 Lollipop’s more graphically demanding user interface and the exponential growth in mobile gaming.
Furthermore Snapdragon chipsets have become the industry standard in non-Apple devices and are where app developers prioritise app compatibility. A notable example of this is the Nexus 9 where manufacturer HTC opted for an Nvidia Tegra K1 chipset and a number of Android apps, including high profile game GTA Vice City, were unstable or refused to run altogether. Months later many still remain incompatible.
Of course it is impossible to speculate prior to release whether this issue will affect the Exynos range. It is also plausible that Samsung has been looking to replace Qualcomm long term in any case and it would fit with the company’s increasing attempts at autonomy fuelled by development of its
