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 […]
Exynos 5 Octa
Samsung announces new Exynos 5 Octa (5422) and Exynos 5 Hexa (5260)
Samsung has officially announced two new Exynos processors that will make its way in the Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 3 Neo smartphones. First is the new Exynos 5422 in the Exynos 5 Octa family which will be integrated in select models of Galaxy S5. The new octa-core processor is equipped with four big Cortex-A15 […]
Exynos 5 Octa-powered Meizu MX3 will get HMP support
Samsung maybe playing coy by not revealing which Exynos 5 Octa SoC will get the heterogeneous multi-processing (HMP) but Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Meizu has confirmed that its MX3 device will support HMP in the future. Meizu uses Samsung’s Exynos 5 Octa (5410) processor for its MX3 and in a forum post confirmed that the device […]
New videos show off all eight-core use on Exynos 5 Octa (5420)
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 […]
Exynos 5 Octa now supports heterogeneous multi-processing (HMP)? [Update: Confirmed]
UPDATE 2: We received the following statement from Samsung regarding implementation of HMP in individual Exynos 5 Octa chips. The optimization of the HMP solution for Exynos products is expected in 4Q of this year. The information regarding set product development is cannot disclosed at the moment. UPDATE: Samsung has confirmed that its Exynos 5 […]