After refusing to incorporate Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 in its Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge handsets, Samsung's Exynos 7420 chipset has climbed to the top of the food chain when pure performance measurements are taken in to consideration. Furthermore, the company's superior 14 nm FinFET architecture has also given the company's chipset an edge against the raging competition in both performance and energy efficiency. Samsung plans on replicating those performance numbers with the release of the company's custom cores, which have been named Exynos M1.
According to GSMArena, Samsung's custom cores will be able to outperform ARM's Cortex-A57 with a 45 percent lead. Several smartphone makers have started to refrain from incorporating Cortex-A57 since it is extremely power hungry; consuming 256 percent more power compared to Cortex-A53. ARM will be able to address this issue with the release of its Cortex-A72, which consumes up to 30 percent less power compared to Cortex-A15. With Samsung's custom cores, new processing speeds of 2.3 GHz per core will be unlocked. Since the cores will be processed on the company's 14 nm FinFET architecture, chances of thermal throttling will be substantially reduced.
This is one of the reasons why NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Apple have partnered up with Samsung; because the smartphone giant possesses the means to mass produce chips fabricated on a superior architecture. However, with Exynos M1, if Samsung does not end up implementing things properly, then the SoC will end up suffering from the same overheating issues as Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 is plagued with.
While the following is yet to be confirmed, it is possible that Samsung's custom cores will be fitted inside the company's upcoming flagship phablet, Galaxy Note 5, which is rumored to sport a 4K display. Samsung's chips will be squaring off against MediaTek's MT6797 (codenamed Helio X20), which features a 10-core processor and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 SoC.
