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Samsung begins sampling the Exynos 5250, mass production kicks off in Q2 2012

Posted: 27 Jan 2012, 10:53, by Victor H.

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Samsung begins sampling the Exynos 5250, mass production kicks off in Q2 2012
Samsung reported rock solid quarterly results, but still couldn’t beat Apple’s historic smartphone sales. It has some exciting chips in the pipeline, though, and the one we’re most excited about is the Samsung Exynos 5250 which Samsung says has already begun sampling with mass production expected to kick off in the second quarter of 2012.

The chipset comes with a dual-core Cortex-A15 setup with each of the cores clocked at 2.0GHz. The Cortex-A15 is a huge leap over the A9, and Samsung claims it will double its performance and possibly outdo even existing quad-core chips. The new chip supports screens with resolution of up to the staggering 2560 x 1600 pixels (WQXGA). 

It also boosts the graphics with four times better performing graphical unit, but when it comes to the GPU there are little details. ARM’s new Mali T-604 is one possible candidate, as the previous Exynos 4210 features the Mali 400, while the Hummingbird was bundled with PowerVR SGX540 GPU.

The Samsung executive who confirmed that the company is right on track with the chips, mentioned that they’re first expected to land on tablets, and only then on smartphones.

source: SammyHub

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1. medicci37 posted on 27 Jan 2012, 11:21 4

Is Samsung coming out with a quad-core this year?

2. buggerrer posted on 27 Jan 2012, 11:29 18 6

Exynos 5250 + Mali T-604 + HD AMOLED + ICS = AWESOMENESS

5. GALAXY-S posted on 27 Jan 2012, 11:39 8 3

FINALLY THE DREAM PHONE IS NEAR!!

19. remixfa posted on 27 Jan 2012, 13:39 2 1

screw mali. back to powerVR!!!! Mali is nice but PVR is better. :)

3. Guest_star posted on 27 Jan 2012, 11:30

well it's maybe possible that they will try to dominate quad's with their new dual core A-15??

4. kshell1 posted on 27 Jan 2012, 11:33 1

they quite possibly could due to the A-15 architecture

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6. c.hack posted on 27 Jan 2012, 11:39 6 17

Awesome. Now our Samsungs can drop calls twice as fast and crash twice as often. Speed does not equal quality, or a good experience.

7. shayan posted on 27 Jan 2012, 11:47 9 3

yeah, but samsung makes quality phones WITH nice specs.

10. jove39 posted on 27 Jan 2012, 12:55 5 2

come on...Samsung is not bad...Galaxy S had little issue here and there...but with Galaxy S II...Samsung has done wonders...and I own both phones...have you ever used Galaxy S II...in your life?

14. iamcc posted on 27 Jan 2012, 12:59 7 2

c.hack every time you post I cry over the fact that you have children.

Literally, tears are shed.

Tell them I said the world is sorry.

16. c.hack posted on 27 Jan 2012, 13:14 1 5

Glad to see you spend your time following me. You really need to get a life. Or maybe not, because of the oxygen you would waste.

17. iamcc posted on 27 Jan 2012, 13:19 4 1

It's not that I spend my time following you but your worthless posts are on every single article that has anything to do with Android or Samsung.

Besides, you used to make good posts. So I always read yours hoping for something new and i'm always disappointed.

And as far as getting a life is concerned, when you grow up and have a real job with your own office you can read phone news at work too.

8. f1r3z0r posted on 27 Jan 2012, 11:47

Ok! But what about playing PS2 or PS3 games on Android phone?? Any news yet? Because we will have a powerful processor of 2.0 quad core and we still playing games like N.O.V.A 2 HD quality?

9. buggerrer posted on 27 Jan 2012, 12:50 5

seriously? if you are a hardcore gamer just get a pc!

13. jove39 posted on 27 Jan 2012, 12:58 3

For powerful gaming...powerful gpu is required...like PowerVR SGX543 MP2 (in A5)...if samsung could throw dual or quad code T604...in their chip...many gaming nerds will have smiling faces ;)

11. KingKurogiii posted on 27 Jan 2012, 12:55

i'd almost say i wish Samsung would go back to using PowerVR Graphics especially when MP2s are available to them but Samsung has optimized Exynos so well for their phones that they shouldn't really bother. o:

12. darac posted on 27 Jan 2012, 12:56

i think that OMAP 5 will beat this.. it also started sampling, it also sports A15 core, but takes the latest Power VR GPU instead of mali. and from what I've read, Imagonation Technologies have the clear edge over all others

18. KingKurogiii posted on 27 Jan 2012, 13:19

i would've thought the OMAP4 could beat the 4210 with that logic too but there's something else about these Exynos processors that make them so much better that i admit i just don't understand. it may just come from sheer optimization.

20. remixfa posted on 27 Jan 2012, 13:41 1

the omap is nice, but exynos is where its at. and the upcomming generation the exynos should have a wider lead. from all the companies prelimary reports, going by the "the next chip will be XX more powerful than the current chip", the exynos is going to have the biggest bump and its already the most powerful chip.

22. KingKurogiii posted on 27 Jan 2012, 14:15

yeah and with LTE support there won't be any more questions from us power users. damn Samsung dangling that in front of my face. DISTRIBUTE EXYNOS TO MOTOROLA PL0X!!!

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