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Samsung introduces its Exynos 5250 processor
KOREAN HARDWARE GIANT Samsung has announced its latest processor, the Exynos 5250 that is based on the ARM Cortex A15 design.
The dual-core processor is designed for high-end tablets and will run at 2GHz. It is fabbed on a 32nm process and is set to appear in devices in the second half of 2012.
"The ARM Cortex-A15 brings unparalleled performance to our Exynos processor family and the exploding mobile marketplace," said Dojun Rhee, VP of system LSI marketing at Samsung. "The advanced low-power, high-performance processor technology of the new Exynos 5250 continues to deliver an unprecedented level of performance for users to enjoy a completely new mobile experience."
Samsung claims the new chip can process nearly twice the number of instructions per second as the ARM 1.5GHz Cortex A9 chip. The Exynos 5250 will be able to support up to 2560x1600 resolution displays and will have four times the graphics capabilities of the Cortex A9.
To support this high resolution the chip has a doubled memory bandwidth of 12.8GB/s compared to existing chips, which also aids data processing speed. To help with power efficiency the Exynos 5250 also has an embedded Displayport (EDP) interface that is compatible with panel self-refresh technology (PSR). It allows a static image on the screen to be refreshed from a memory buffer instead of using processor cycles. µ
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samsung should have made it using latest 20nm or 28nm fab to save power and get better performance. it may fit well within samsung's lower end phones
So its curious to see how this beast performs against the Tegra 3, Quad Cores clocked at 1.5 or Dual Cores clocked at 2ghz. It will probably be a situation like the x86 chips, most apps can take advantage of the clock speed bump without modification but need to be coded differently for the parallelism. I'm not sure how android works this out, if the OS can take manage the cores or if its down to the application but this will definitely make for interesting competition. Also, with the architecture, will these arm chips be able to shut down the cores to save on power when not in use? it would be interesting if the quad cores could disable cores and increase the clock speed like the x86 chips are doing nowdays. Either way i love the progression of ARM, in the end, consumers win!