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Samsung Galaxy S4 and Note 3 could become ‘true eight-core’ devices through software upgrade

By now it's pretty common knowledge that Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa isn't really a true eight-core chip, only allowing either four low-power Cortex-A7 cores or four high-performance Cortex-A15 cores to be active at any time. So when Samsung announced that its Exynos Octa chip would soon be gaining the ability to use all eight cores […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

ARM demos Exynos 5 Octa’s HMP support

Samsung confirmed the development of Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP) yesterday and ARM has now posted few videos showcasing HMP's capability. The videos show how Exynos 5 Octa 5420 can use all or some of the cores, which in this case, they run QuickOffice and Angry Birds Rio. The third video also shows how big.LITTLE can work […]

By Kunal G.
11 years ago

Heterogeneous Multi-Processing will be integrated in Exynos 5 Octa

One of the issues we had with Exynos 5 Octa was the inability to support Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP). Now Samsung has confirmed that its Exynos 5 Octa with ARM's big.LITTLE technology will support Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP). In simpler terms, with HMP, the SoC will be able to use all eight cores at once or just […]

By Kunal G.
11 years ago

Samsung Exynos OCTA-pella: Performance + Efficiency in Perfect Harmony

In the OCTA-pella video, you'll see how the Exynos 5 Octa uses ARM big.LITTLE processing to balance workloads across CPU cores, using the right core for the right task.

By Danny Dorresteijn
11 years ago

New Exynos 5 Octa (5420) crushes Nexus 10 in benchmark

Yesterday, Samsung announced the new Exynos 5 Octa (Exynos 5420) chip based on ARM Mali-T628 silicon. The new AP is 20 percent more faster than its predecessor (Exynos 5410), claims Samsung. However, the most significant change is the graphics processing unit, it's the industry's first SoC to feature a six-core GPU. Engadget got some hands-on […]

By Faryaab S.
11 years ago

Samsung announces new Exynos 5 Octa SoC, based on ARM Mali-T628 MP6 cores

After a whole week of teasers, Samsung has finally announced its new Exynos 5 Octa SoC. The new Exynos 5 SoC, codenamed Exynos 5420, is based on ARM Mali-T628 MP6 cores. Samsung's new SoC is the industry's first AP to be driven by a 6-core GPU. Exynos 5420 features quad Cortex-A15 cores clocked at 1.8GHz with […]

By Faryaab S.
11 years ago

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