Samsung comes with 14nm budget soc for smartphones

Samsung has presented the Exynos 7570, its first soc for budget smartphones that the manufacturer makes on its 14nm process. It is a quad-core with four Cortex A53 cores and an unknown GPU, which can drive screens up to 1280×800 pixels.

The Exynos 7570 is now in mass production, writes Samsung. As a result, it will probably be in smartphones that will be on the market in the foreseeable future. The Exynos 7 Quad has four Cortex A53 cores at 1.4GHz. Samsung is tight-lipped about the gpu, but all Exynos socs from recent years have an ARM Mali GPU on board and this is probably a T820 or T720, the cheapest options. The soc can control cameras with a maximum resolution of thirteen megapixels.

In addition to the cpu cores and gpu, the modem is also included in the soc, which provides access to 4g via lte cat 4, with a maximum download speed of 150Mbit/s. The soc also has support for WiFi, Bluetooth, location services such as GPS and Glonass and hardware to enable an FM radio.

Given the maximum that the soc can control, cheap Samsung phones get this chipset. Samsung’s first 14nm SOC is the Exynos 7420 which is in the Galaxy S6 series.