Next year the power will get even more muscle in the smartphones that populate the market. At least, that is what we can expect if we look at what South Korean Samsung could present at the ISSC "" an important meeting focused on processors "" next February. This would be a new processing unit in which the firm will be working in order to install in smartphones higher-end we would see next year.
There are several peculiarities of this processor. To begin with, it would be a chip based on Cortex-A15, although as we will see below, this would be only part of the unit. On the other hand, the fact of carrying a Cortex-A15 unit does not make it the first in this sense, since we know that the Note 2 carries an Exynos of this type. Where it would be a pioneer is in the fact that it is the first ARM processor to use big.LITTLE technology. And now, yes, we link to the above.
This technology has an important strength, which in Samsung's proposal would materialize in an eight-core chip. Yes, as you are reading. No less than eight power cores destined to supply power to a mobile or a tablet. The design of this unit would be divided into two clusters of four cores each.
And with a view to increasing efficiency, they would be distributed at the rate of one based on Cortex-A7 technology and another Cortex-A15; the first would develop a clock frequency of 1.2 GHz, while the second would reach a speed of 1.8 GHz. Both would operate simultaneously in the face of the most demanding processes, so that the terminal to which they supplied power could display high-performance content without jeopardizing the autonomy provided by its battery ”” although it remains to be seen what type of unit the users would have in mind. guys from the Korean multinational in this regard.
There are no clues for now about the device in which Samsung would debut this surprising unit, although there are not a few voices that begin to whisper in the direction of the Samsung Galaxy S4, the fourth generation of the company's head phones. Despite everything, the latest rumors are betting on the presence of a 1.8 GHz quad-core processor in this hypothetical device, so you might think that perhaps the Asian company is not in such a hurry to release its big.LITTLE chip, so we could get to know him on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, which if he doesn't fail at the pace he's been setting, would officially pose for the cameras in September of next year.
The news about Samsung's new eight-core processor comes at a crucial time. Apple is determined to break its independence from the South Korean and launch itself to manufacture its own processors, something that could concur with the alliance with the North American Intel, which also wants to enter with a significant presence in the business of chips for smartphones and tablets. In this sense, the Californian Qualcomm and NVIDIA would also attend Samsung's move in the obligation to react with new proposals for one year, 2013, which will be especially interesting as far as competition for the sector is concerned.
