Since January 7th the Consumer
Electronics Show has been in full swing. Today Samsung put on its second
conference, and while we were not expecting a lot of innovations in the
mobile department (CES tradition), we were treated to a nice surprise.
To much awe, the South Korean high-tech
giant unveiled the newest in their Exynos processor line, boasting not
four cores as is the current trend, but 8, raising the bar much higher
than the nVidia Tegra 4 introduced yesterday.
The CPU dubbed “Exynos 5 OCTA”, is
actually composed of 2 4-core clusters. The first is a group of 4
Cortex-A15 cores clocked at 1.8Ghz and will be dedicated to
high-performance processing, while the second brings together 4 less
power-hungry Cortex A-7 @ 1.2Ghz. These will take over when the
smartphone requires less processing power so as to save energy and
optimize battery life. Samsung claims the new Exynos chip posseses twice
as much power as what the rest of the industry offers now for 3D
processing.
This new chip uses 28nm engraving and
Samsung has indicated it will be possible to bring this down to 20, 14
or even 10nm in the future.
This announcement is music to our hears
and we can only hope this shiny new toy will be the brain of the Galaxy
S4! In any case we’ll know in a few months, so stay tuned.
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