Samsung yesterday announced the support for Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP) in the Exynos 5 Octa and ARM is quick enough to showcase big.LITTLE’s HMP support in the videos below. The three videos uploaded by ARM shows big.LITTLE’s true capability by running QuickOffice application, Angry Birds Rio game and GPU compute from ARM Mali with big.LITTLE.
HMP will allow Exynos 5 Octa SoC to activate fewer or all eight cores at once, depending on the task. However, one interesting fact in these videos are the use of Exynos 5 Octa (5420), which is the latest chip by Samsung. There’s no mention of the first Exynos 5 Octa chip (5410) that powers the Galaxy S4 and given how Samsung didn’t reveal which chips will get the HMP support, it does not instill much confidence in the first Exynos 5 Octa.
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