Samsung Testing Snapdragon 820 For Galaxy S7 (Rumor)

Even if the difference between the two chips is not that great, it appears that the Snapdragon 616 will be able to deliver improved results compared to its predecessor.

No matter what chipset Samsung uses, you can expect to see the Galaxy S7 to go official sooner than usual as it was recently reported that Samsung has accelerated the development of its next flagship smartphone by adopting a new modular process.

Qualcomm disclosed some of the details of the Hexagon 680 works at the Hot Chips conference. Free webinar on the omnichannel marketing strategy.

The Hexagon DSP in Snapdragon 820 consists of three primary partitions. The Hexagon DSP can double the music playback battery life on the Nexus 5. As of this writing, Qualcomm claims there are “hundreds” of developers actively writing code targeting its family of Hexagon processors. The new guy here is the lower power DSP in the Low Power Island (LPI) that shifts how always-on sensors can communicate with the operating system. The DSP also aids in sensor-assist positioning for things like sharing accurate location info when your GPS signal is weak.

Qualcomm also gets more power from the Hexagon 680 in the form of Hexagon Vector eXtensions. Qualcomm says the DSP is optimized for the emerging, sexy applications that are selling flagship phones: virtual and augmented reality, camera processing, and monitoring sensors like pedometers and the like. With Hexagon 680, the Snapdragon 820 can perform this task three times faster than earlier generations of processors and at only 10 percent of the power.

According to a recent report, Samsung are putting the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor through a number of tests to decide whether to use the processor in next years Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone.

Qualcomm said that the DSP enables algorithms to intelligently brighten areas of photos that were underexposed a bit more intelligently than the high-dynamic range (HDR) photos that cameras take, as the algorithm intelligently lightens just regions of the photo.

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