Samsung announced its new processor Exynos 5 Octa at CES
2013. Argued that developing the chip, the company has focused on multi-tasking
and graphics performance boost, but try to reduce the power consumption of the
chip. In an 8-core 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.
As the general director of Qualcomm, the chip Exynos 5 Octa though
called an eight, but all 8 cores will never work together. He believes that
with the second 4-core unit Samsung decided to mask the defective chip with
high power consumption, non-optimized for use in smartphones and tablets. Thus,
Koreans just added four low-power core, which will absorb the bulk of the work,
and called a hybrid 8-core processor.
According to the head of Qualcomm, the industry's often the
case when the problem with the product is converted to the next marketing
achievement. And Samsung has introduced all astray, focusing on the actual fact
of the 8-core, and not the power of the chip.
In Qualcomm noted that smartphone users should not care how
many cores is mobile processor. The main thing is that your smartphone or
tablet offers high performance and at the same time had a maximum duration of
battery life.
