Samsung introduced the 8-core smartphone

Samsung at CES 2013 announced a new processor Exynos 5 Octa for smartphones and tablets, which has eight cores. Developing a processor, the company has focused for multi-tasking and graphics performance boost, but tried to reduce power consumption chip.

Nvidia Tegra systems within single chip which is material form like 4plus1. Unlike the latter, where 1 core, low-power switches with 4 normal, when their performance is not claimed, the processor Samsung combined 4 high on the architecture of the core Cortex-A15 and four energy-efficient architecture for core Cortex-A7. All are made on a common substrate.

The first group of cores used for processor-intensive tasks, and the second - for tasks that do not require high processing power. Exynos 5 Octa made ​​on 28-nanometer process technology, as well as a new generation of Nvidia chip - Tegra 4 .

Samsung sets the processor Exynos, based on the architecture of ARM, in its smartphones. In addition, she produces for communicators memory and displays, as well as other components. According to the head of the unit, which supplies large-scale integrated circuits, in this sense, the company is unique.

According to estimates of Samsung, the chip, the development of which is Exynos 5 Octa, is already used in 53 million devices. Processors on the market for smart phones Samsung is the second largest in the world with a share of 27%. Qualcomm is in the first with a 42% market share.

Nvidia Tegra 4, leaked information, has 72 graphics cores

Leaked on the net the first image (and all information relating thereto) by Nvidia Tegra 4, the next product System-On-A-Chip Nvidia house. In other words is the processor that will be used on the next generation of smartphones and tablets Android (but not only).

It is a quad core processor (4 +1, as the previous Tegra 3), based on the Cortex A15 with ARM architecture. This is therefore a generation of completely different products, compared to the previous Tegra 3 quad core. This becomes even more obvious when we discover that the graphics processors increased from 12 to around 72.

The production process will then 28nm (the same of Snapdragon S4) and simplifying, we can say that this will ensure an energy saving definitely superior.

This support for resolutions up to 2660 x 1440 pixels, video playback 4K (the future, after the Full HD) and USB 3.0 ports. No mention of LTE connectivity, but will almost certainly be present and simply not mentioned in the leaked slide.

The challenge is now on: Samsung has unveiled its dual-core A15, the version quad-core is arriving ARM is already talked of an A50 (but not before 2014!). They begin the dance for Tegra 4: HTC is really the first to mount it?

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Tegra 4 specification first exposure: the A15 architecture is 4 + core

The NVIDIA Tegra processor has just become very popular in the tablet machine and the smart phone , the VR-Zone today received some specifications about the next generation of the Tegra. The Tegra 4 codename Wayne (Batman Wayne) on the official road map is scheduled for 2012, but actually to 2013 will be launched, and most models have to wait until after a year and a half.

NVIDIA Tegra4

According to the latest intelligence, the Tegra will have four different models, but only three of which will be based on the latest ARM Cortex-A15 processor architecture, the other a will continue to follow the Tegra A9 architecture, while the core configuration or "4 - the PLUS-1 ", that is, the four main core plus a secondary core.

The first quarter of 2013, starting flagship model clocked at 1.8GHz, high-end positioning, for the 10-inch flat-panel machine equipment to the third quarter will be upgraded to 2.0GHz.

Is the same in the third quarter of next year, the two mainstream models will be available, one of the A15 architecture, clocked at 1.2-1.8GHz, still for the 10-inch flat-panel machine, market positioning will be more mainstream and even can bring cheap products The second is the A9 architecture, clocked at 1.2-2.0GHz, 7 inch tablet and smartphone-oriented, and in particular, by adding support on LTE100/HSPA42 network.

This will be the first Tegra to support LTE networks, can make up for the Tegra 3 is unable to support LTE, leading to a large number of 4G mobile phone to switch to the shortcomings of the Qualcomm platform.

As to the exact specifications of the GeForce GPU graphics core integrated in the Tegra 4, does not yet have a more accurate statement.

Obviously, until the second half of 2013 is the Tegra 4 real heat and light for the beginning of the year and a half before that will still see the Tegra 3, so come back to look at the Tegra 3 of the six models of frequency specifications, put into operation in progress.