Samsung Producing Quad Mobile Application Processor for Budget Smartphones

Samsung began mass production of its Exynos 7 Quad 7570 mobile application processor (AP), it said in a news release. The AP, built on 14-nanometer process technology, is designed for for the budget smartphone market and IoT devices, said Samsung Monday night. The 7570 is the first Exynos processor to integrate a Cat.4 LTE 2CA modem along with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM and global navigation satellite system in one chip, said the company. The Exynos 7570’s four Cortex-A53 cores deliver 70 percent more processing performance and 30 percent better power efficiency than the predecessor chip built on 28 nm technology, Samsung said. Design optimization and feature consolidation reduced the total chipset size by up to 20 percent, it said.