Qualcomm has released the Snapdragon 625 with a 14nm process, making the mid and low-end SoC into the ranks of advanced processes. Samsung did not want to lag behind and released the Exynos 7870 on the eve of MWC 2016.

Exynos 7870 is a SoC of Exynos 7 Octa series. It is built with eight core Cortex-A53 and has a frequency of 1.6GHz. It is manufactured using Samsung's 14nm LPP FinFET process (officially claimed that the power consumption of products with 28nm KHMG process is 30% lower than that of products with 28nm KHMG process). It integrates LTE Cat. 6 baseband, supports up to 300Mbps downlink network and up to WUXGA (1920 × 1200) resolution. The Exynos 7870 will debut in the first quarter of 2016, and is likely to be installed on the new Galaxy J7 product.

From Exynos 7870 and Snapdragon 625, it can be seen that the medium and low end chips in 2016 will use the advanced technology of 14nm or 16nm, and will provide a stronger endurance performance when combined with the low-power core of Cortex-A53. In addition, MediaTek's Helio P20 (also the eight core Cortex-A53, but with a frequency of up to 2.3GHz and a 16nm process) is also in the offing. Youmeizu MX6 will be the first to use this SoC. There is another problem. Although the Exynos 7870 is numerically larger than the Exynos 7420, there is a huge performance gap. It only uses a new generation of 14nm technology. Samsung's set of naming rules is really confusing.