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Report says that Samsung won't use Snapdragon 810 in Galaxy S6, overheating issues to blame

By Harish Jonnalagadda | Jan 21 2015 | 4:25 am | 12 Comments

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Over the last few years, Samsung has stuck to a release model for its flagships that sees the inclusion of Qualcomm chips for LTE markets, and Exynos-based variants in South Korea and emerging markets. That may change with the Galaxy S6, as a report out of Bloomberg states that Samsung won't offer a Snapdragon 810 variant of the Galaxy S6 on grounds of overheating issues.

Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg says that Qualcomm's eight-core Snapdragon 810 "overheated during the Korean company's testing," with Samsung finally deciding not to use it altogether. Samsung will instead launch the Galaxy S6 with an in-house Exynos SoC. The South Korean manufacturer has been making huge strides in the field of application processors, with the latest version featuring an integrated LTE modem.

Samsung isn't far off in terms of processing power when seen against Qualcomm's offerings, but the vendor, along with everyone else in the segment including MediaTek, Intel and Nvidia, are miles behind Qualcomm when it comes to LTE modems. For instance, Qualcomm announced that it will offer the Snapdragon 810 with an LTE Category 9 modem that can attain download speeds of up to 450 Mbit/sec.

If Samsung is indeed looking to boycott the Snapdragon 810, it may be in the minority, as LG's G Flex 2 has Qualcomm's eight-core SoC, and HTC's upcoming One M9 is also expected to feature Qualcomm's latest.

Source: Bloomberg

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Tswfootball

If Samsung skips it due to overheating issues should we be concerned about flagship devices using it?

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arutemauepon

We don't know if it's real or they just made it up so they can opt for exynos

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rd_nest

Why should they do that when they have been using Qualcomm for past many years? It's a business, not fight among kids where you need to give a useless logic. If Samsung just wanted to use Exynos, they would simply do so without even talking about Qualcomm. There is no logic to giving any sort of explanation.

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Benjamin_NYC

Right. It's a business. And using their own in house chip is cheaper. This is a smoke screen.

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9ersfan3

The Exynos 7 is so powerful it may have the 810 trumped. I wish the SD 805 had issues that forced Samsung to go with only the Exynos 5433 on the note 4, lol. Exynos is now top of the line. The days of the octa 5420 (which is still very powerful) are over. The cat 9 of the 810 is impressive though

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zzzaac

Well it's all rumours until the phone actually shows up, personally don't mind either one, as both the Snapdragon and Exynos (which one though?) seem to be beasts.

But some modders might not like the Exynos

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zizu101

At the HTC event, I would like if AC could ask about this issue. I don't want to get an overheating mess on the m9.

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Benjamin_NYC

LOL AC "editors" don't ask any "questions" that might prove difficult for manufacturers or Google. They simply report the fluff presented to them.

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rd_nest
[MENTION=308978]harish[/MENTION] Jonnalagadda, why are you mentioning Cat 9 modem as it is of much importance here? Samsung already is planning for in-house Cat 10 modem, so why suddenly Cat 9 be of any importance. Forget Cat 9/10, how many regions can actually exceed Cat 6??

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-exynos-cat10-lte-450mbps,28177....

http://www.gsmarena.com/next_samsung_exynos_soc_rumored_to_feature_cat10...

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Peter Burkes

I have a Samsung Galaxy s5 & its over heating as well. Never had this problem before with any Galaxy phones.

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Mighty_Red

Bit of a worry really, as if it is a problem with the 810 chip itself, the other vendors will have issues. On the other hand, if it is simply the design of the S6 that is to blame for the issues then Sammy are not doing such a great job.

Either way, I'm glad I'll be skipping this years offerings, hopefully 2016 will have stable CPU choices, 2K with no lag and type C USB :)

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tonybyatt

What are you talking about? There are no 2015 flagships even out yet...

How about waiting for facts before making absurd comments...

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