It's no secret that Samsung takes pride in its in-house Exynos ARM processors, but outside of Samsung's own devices, the Exynos division hasn't seen much market growth. In fact, last year Exynos chips saw pretty slow growth, mostly due to Qualcomm's Snapdragon CPUs being the de facto standard in Android devices, including many of Samsung's own models.
However, last month Samsung's Exynos processors saw a 10% sales increase compared to last year, which is likely because many of Samsung's newer phone models this year will debut with Exynos processors over Snapdragon processors, including the Galaxy Note Neo. On top of that, Samsung is reportedly working on several new tablets that will also use Exynos processors, which is something we've seen in the Note Pro line of tablets. The LTE models use Qualcomm processors, but all of the other tablets in the family exclusively use Samsung's own CPUs. Further down the line, Samsung of course has a 64-bit version of their Exynos chip planned.
Despite this increased focus on mobile processors, all of the rumors surrounding the Galaxy S5 point to at least one version of it launching with a Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, likely due to LTE compatibility and because of the sheer volume of components Samsung needs to be able to manufacture enough GS5s to meet demand.
This is definitely going to be an interesting year. Even if the hardware isn't increasing at a lightning fast pace like we're used to, I'd imagine we're still going to see some unique features in these processors. Here's to hoping battery life is on the top of Samsung and Qualcomm's list.
source: ZDNet Korea
via: SamMobile
