All hail the eight cores! Samsung announces Exynos 5 Octa mobile processor

153. Hunt3rj2 posted on 11 Jan 2013, 19:32 0 0

Except, you know. Qualcomm is more than a match.

71. remixfa posted on 09 Jan 2013, 14:06 1 1

so.. what A15 chip will Sony be using? Samsung is the only actual maker of A15s right now. The Krait pro is not an A15 chip. OMAP is out of the game.. and those chinese knock off chips dont count.

99. KingKurogiii posted on 09 Jan 2013, 16:31 0 0

ummm...Nvidia. xD
Texas Instruments is not out of the game either. Imagination Technologies has an OMAP5 Prototype with the SGX Rogue at CES.

101. remixfa posted on 09 Jan 2013, 16:33 0 0

Are you sure? I thought Ti came out and said that they were out of the game.... then back in the game... then back out of the game like a month later. They are doing the hokey pokey.

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134. Hunt3rj2 posted on 09 Jan 2013, 23:50 0 0

TI is not going past OMAP 5 ever. There is a small chance that OMAP 5 will ship, but if TI decides it won't make money then it won't.

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136. KingKurogiii posted on 10 Jan 2013, 01:00 0 0

i guess development work is still being done on the OMAP5 platform but they are just dancing around whether or not they want to mass produce it.

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106. Guest_star posted on 09 Jan 2013, 17:18 0 0

well we will w8 and see what will krait 400 be based on, i bet they will modify arm cortex a15, there is no other way to compete with exinos and t4, even now krait cores of curent gen are using a15 set of instructions if i remeber corectly

133. Hunt3rj2 posted on 09 Jan 2013, 23:49 0 0

Stop using the words Krait Pro, because they make no sense together and suggest that you don't know what you're talking about.

Krait 300 has a large IPC increase (15% at same clock) and is generally tweaked when compared to Krait 200 (APQ8064/MSM8960). Krait 400 adds on to that with even better memory bandwidth, better cache, and massively higher clock speeds. Of course, no one said that it will equal Cortex A15 clock for clock, but the power savings is immense.

138. remixfa posted on 10 Jan 2013, 06:34 0 0

that's amazing, because the chip in my Nexus4 is the Krait Pro quadcore.

Your confusing their NEW names with their current names.

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152. Hunt3rj2 posted on 11 Jan 2013, 19:30 0 0

No, it's called the Snapdragon S4 Pro. Give me a single link that calls Krait v2/200 "Krait Pro", especially when the same exact CPU version is in the MSM8960.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6568/qualcomm-krait-400-krait-300-snapdragon-800

If you care to read a bit, you'll notice that they actually have an APQ8064T launching, along with MSM8960T, which are going to be Krait v3/300, and MSM8974 is going to be Krait 400, which is higher memory bandwidth and much higher clocks to boot.

You need to stop talking about things you don't understand and stop trying to fight a position that has no basis in reality.

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80. Larry_ThaGr81 posted on 09 Jan 2013, 14:30 0 0

I wouldn't expect to see this new technology no earlier than September of this year.

81. remixfa posted on 09 Jan 2013, 14:41 1 1

it is very unlikely to be in any phones this year. They havent even dropped quad core Exynos 5's into retail yet. That will most likely be in the Note3 and SGS4.

These chips are meant more for the netbook/chromebook/high end tablet crowd.

109. SmartPhoneStream posted on 09 Jan 2013, 17:39 0 0

I know it'll be highly unlikely but it would be great, in an era of quad cores, releasing an 8 core would be a great selling point

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