Samsung is continuing its Exynos aspiration with the new Exynos 5 Octa chip – the Exynos 5430. The application processor prides itself to be the first chip manufactured using the 20nm process, thus giving a boost in the performance and energy efficiency compared to a similar application processor on higher nodes. Samsung says the Exynos […]
New implementation will allow Exynos 5 Octa to use all eight cores
If you’ve been following Samsung’s Exynos 5 Octa developments, you’d be aware that Samsung’s current generation is nothing but two quad-cores integrated on one SoC. In short, Galaxy S4 that is the only device on sale right now with an Exynos 5 Octa chip uses 4+4 configuration. However, that’s about to change with today’s announcement. […]
Exynos 5 Octa – Eight-core processor for mobile devices from Samsung
Samsung’s Stephen Woo addressed the last keynote at the CES today and unravelled the upcoming Exynos processor. Known as the Exynos 5 Octa, it is an eight-core system-on-chip (SoC) for high-end mobile devices. The processor is stacked with four cores of ARM Cortex-A7 and four cores for Cortex-A15 and utilises big.LITTLE technology that gives the […]