Heads up Apple, Here Comes Samsung's 8-core Chip
Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa is slated for commercial production in the second quarter
Samsung is set to begin manufacturing its eight-core phone and tablet processor in the second quarter. That's a problem for Apple because Apple is both competing with Samsung and getting its A6 from the South Korean company. Think Apple's A6 chip packs a punch? It appears to have some stiff competition from Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa, slated for commercial production in the second quarter, the company announced yesterday.
Featured in Samsung's Galaxy S4, Octa means it integrates a whopping eight CPU cores. Apple's A6 has two, by comparison.While a raw core count comparison may be too simplistic, Samsung's chip, on paper, should make Apple worry - especially since Samsung is simultaneously manufacturing the Exynos chip and Apple's A6.
The Exynos 5 Octa uses technology from chip designer ARM called big.LITTLE. In other words, there are four "big" high-performance cores (up to 1.8GHz) and four "little" power-efficient cores (up to 1.2GHz), referred to as Cortex A15 and A7, respectively.
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