As you can imagine most of the chips inside are from Samsung, but Chipworks revealed a few surprising parts.

The heart of the phone is well known 14nm big.LITTLE Samsung Exynos 7420 SoC that is pretty much the fastest phone SoC around. The memomy is Samsung's K3RG3G30MM-DGCH 3GB LPDDR4 SDRAM and storage is also from Samsung, part number KLUBG4G1BD for the 32GB NAND Flash version. Even the modem is from Samsung.

The phone comes with a Samsung Shannon 333 Modem, Shannon 533 PMIC, Samsung S2MPS15 PMIC, Samsung Shannon 928 RF Transceiver and Samsung Shannon 710 Envelope Tracking IC. That is a lot of Samsung in one sentence, and the modem was a bit of a surprise part for us. We have mentioned that Exynos 7420 is a big deal for the company, as for the first time in years there is an Android phone that is using technology others cannot have, at least not yet. 

There are a lot more chips in the S6, but we were surprised to see that Samsung even has an Image Processor and Electro-Mechanics 3853B5 Wi-Fi Module. Chipworks claims that the Exynos 7420 SoC measures approximately 78mm2, which is tiny compared to the old 118.3 mm2 SoC used in the Samsung Galaxy S5. However, we are not sure if they are comparing the S5 with Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 or the one with Samsung Exynos 5 Octa 5422 SoC.

We can point out that the Galaxy S6 is one of the most advanced phones on the market and that Samsung has lrearned a lot from previous of its phones and SoCs. Many pople will find the lack of microSD expansion and a replaceable battery quite annyoing, but then again a lot of users don't mind the integrated battery. We really miss the inexpensive alternative storage that plugs into microSD slot.

It is important to point out that this is just one variation of the Samsung Galaxy S6 phone and we are sure that some of them, especially the ones for the USA market will come with a Qualcomm modem.