Samsung has expanded its Exynos 5 Octa lineup with Exynos 5430 – Samsung’s first octa-core processor based on 20nm HKMG process. Samsung says 20nm process enables the SoC to be highly energy efficient without having to compromise on the performance. In comparison, the Exynos 5430 reduces power consumption by 25 percent compared to an application processor based on 28nm node.
The Exynos 5430 is equipped with four Cortex-A15 cores clocked at 1.8GHz and four smaller Cortex-A7 cores at 1.3GHz and even supports big.LITTLE HMP (Heterogeneous Multi-Processing) processing that enables activating or deactivating of individual cores as per the processing need. The processor supports WQHD (2560×1440) and WQXGA (2560×1600) display resolution, which means there’s a chance we might this chip in a smartphone packing a high-resolution display (Galaxy Note 4?).
For now, the Exynos 5430 will be used in Samsung’s Galaxy Alpha that was announced yesterday.
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