iPhone 7 VS Galaxy S7

iPhone 7 and Galaxy S7 are the most expected smartphones of the coming year. To date, a little premature to get carried away unprepared devices, but the first rumors brought quite interesting insights into the processors, which will become the “heart” of the main flagships of the market.

It may seem that the rumors about the mobile processors are not as interesting, but this element is responsible for the performance of the phone overall, playing a key role in the user experience. This week Asian sources have published details of the characteristics and names of the new chips: A10 for iPhone 7, Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 8890 and Exynos for Galaxy S7.

iPhone 7

According to CTimes, the only manufacturer of processors A10 will be the company TSMC. It is believed that the reason for this was the story of the performance of the iPhone 6s chips from Samsung. Tests have shown that in most scenarios the iPhone 6s processor TSMC are longer offline than instances with chips Samsung.

According to information from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, TSMC will begin volume production of A10 in March next year, with the start of iPhone production is expected in the third quarter of 2016.

The new A10 chip will be built on 16-nanometer process technology using a proprietary layout level substrate InFO (Integrated Fan-out). The processor should be more energy efficient and faster than their predecessors. But most importantly, the new technology will allow Apple to use advanced SiP (System-in-Package). This decision Apple first started to use it for computing S1 in the “smart” clock Apple Watch. Theoretically, this will increase the size of the iPhone battery or to reduce the overall size of the device.

Galaxy S7

Despite the loss of business for the production of processors for iPhone, Samsung remains the main manufacturer of chips for Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. This processor will complete the majority of flagship Android smartphones in 2016.

One such device will be the Galaxy S7. After attempts to use only its own processors in Galaxy S6, Samsung has decided to equip the following smartphones and Snapdragon 820, and the new generation of Exynos 8890.

Features Snapdragon 820 is already known: 64-bit architecture, a 40% increase in speed, improved support for LTE networks with a maximum speed of 600 Mbps, HD-quality voice and fast charging technology version 3.0.

Samsung will not only in the production of Snapdragon 820, but also the solution to the problem of overheating of processors by modifying the software or adding additional heat sink elements.

Equally impressive Exynos 8890 expected to be created by a principle “all in one”. It is expected that Exynos integrating application processors and modem chip. A new “stone” from Samsung will be able to work simultaneously with three ranges of cellular networks will support LTE speeds of up to 600 Mbit/s. 8890 Exynos will be manufactured using 14-nm process that will make it faster and more energy efficient than previous Samsung chips.

It is expected that the Galaxy S7 with CPU Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 will be sold in the United States and China, and the model with Exynos 8890 will appear in other regions.