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Right now, Samsung's Galaxy S6 rules the roost in terms of Android functioning. It's the only chip currently aircraft on 14nm, and information technology's operation and ability consumption are among the best loftier-end phones on the market, even if bombardment life is hampered by Samsung's decision to go with a smaller battery pack. Now, information technology seems that the Korean company's Exynos platform may have a new challenger to deal with, in the form of LG's NUCLUN 2. This chip is the second iteration of LG's efforts to build its own custom smartphone SoC, only the first design merely shipped in a single pattern that I'g aware of (the LG G3 Screen), and it wasn't a specially strong performer.

The new NUCLUN two (pronounced NOO-klun), on the other hand, might be a serious headache for both Samsung and Qualcomm. Thus far, we've only seen a single criterion outcome, but that examination shows the Nuclun ii beating the Samsung Exynos 7420 in both single and multi-threaded tests.

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Other information suggests the bit is a quad-core Cortex-A72, paired up with low-power Cortex-A53s. Top clock speed is supposedly 2.1GHz on the A72 and 1.5GHz on the A53's. That's a clock-for-clock match against the Exynos 7420, on both counts, which suggests the single-thread improvements from ARM's next-generation CPU core are indeed significant. I interesting thing almost these results, notwithstanding, is that the Exynos 7420 loses by much less in the multi-threading test. This could mean that the early on Nuclun 2 chips yet have some bugs to be worked out — or it could betoken that the Cortex-A72 hits its thermal envelope more apace than the Cortex-A57. We've discussed the suitability of mobile phone benchmarks before, and the truth is that while Geekbench is quite useful for examining underlying architectural features, information technology's not a neat way to judge the overall performance of a smartphone.

That said, most Android applications aren't particularly well-threaded, and the Nuclun's 20% college score in that style bodes well for devices that might use the flake, provided LG can evangelize on the other features. There's no word yet on what GPU technology LG might use, nor any information on overall ability consumption. And of course, there'southward even so Qualcomm'south Snapdragon 820 to consider, with its new GPU and custom Kryo CPU core. LG is reportedly tapping TSMC's 16nm for its new chip, and with TSMC at present in volume production at that node, nosotros should come across the Nuclun 2 in devices by the finish of 2022 or early in 2022.