Samsung Galaxy S7 is rumored to be out and about early next year. Rumors about the specs of the flagship have been rampant in the past few weeks as well. There's a new report though that provides insight as to how far along Samsung is in terms of manufacturing the device.

Apparently, the South Korea-based tech firm has ramped up its production of the Exynos 8890 processor, which is said to be the chipset to be used on majority of the Samsung Galaxy S7 units the company will be putting out.

The said processor is a breakthrough for Samsung as it is the first of its kind to ditch ARM designs with completely new custom cores. As GSM Arena noted, the company has been using ARM cores for the Exynos chipsets it used on the ones before the Samsung Galaxy S7.

Notably, the Exynos 8890 chipset, which is codenamed M1 and Mongoose, isn't the only unit going under the hood of the flagship. Reports regarding the use of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor have been rampant too.

Fans may recall that for Samsung Galaxy S6, the company ditched Snapdragon 810 in the midst of its overheating problems. But now that Qualcomm is back on track with the new-gen unit, it looks like Samsung isn't letting go of the manufacturer after all.

Meanwhile, according to reports, Samsung Galaxy S7 will come in three variants. Just like its predecessor, the smartphone is said to have a version with a standard display and two more versions, one bigger than the other with curved displays, which will be called Galaxy S7 Edge and S7 Edge Plus.

Reports claim that Samsung will launch all editions at the same time. As to when the tech firm will do so, word on the street is that the outing of the flagship will happen as early as February.