Samsung today introduced the latest addition to the ual core ARM Cortex-A9 application processor for Smartphone and Tablet Devices”>Exynos product family with top level of graphic performance driven by a six-core ARM Mali -T628 GPU processor for the first time in the industry. The newest Exynos processor is powered by four ARM Cortex -A15 processors at 1.8GHz with four additional Cortex-A7 cores at 1.3 GHz in a big.LITTLE processing implementation. With mobile use case scenarios becoming increasingly complex, Samsung’s newest eight-core ARM Cortex application processor gives designers a powerful, energy efficient tool to build multifaceted user interface capabilities directly into the system architecture.
The new Exynos 5 Octa processor features a memory bandwidth of 14.9 gigabytes per second paired with a dual-channel LPDDR3 at 933MHz, enabling an industry-leading fast data processing and support for full HD Wifi display. This new processor also incorporates a variety of full HD 60 frames per second video hardware codec engines for 1080p video recording and playback. The new family of Exynos 5 Octa is currently sampling to customers and is scheduled for mass-production in August.