Samsung Exynos 5 Mobile Processor Family with ARM Cortex-A15 Core Design ...
>> Samsung shows off Exynos 5 Processor
In race with Texas Instruments to be first to get the new ARM Cortex-A15 architecture into commercial products
Caroline Gabriel
Rethink Wireless
13 August, 2012
rethink-wireless.com
Samsung has shown off the latest generation in its Exynos mobile processor family, claiming it will be first to market with chips based on the new ARM Cortex-A15 core design.
Exynos 5 will aim to leapfrog Qualcomm, Nvidia and the others, before they too transition from the current Cortex-A9 to the high performance, low power upgrade. Texas Instruments has actually already announced two OMAP models based on A15, and even shown a prototype tablet, but Samsung has the time to market advantage of an internal customer, in its own handset unit.
ARM first unveiled A15 in September 2010. It runs at up to 2.5GHz and can support up to 16 cores. The Exynos 5 Dual is not going that far. It has two cores running at 1.7GHz and will reduce size and energy consumption by using a 32nm manufacturing process (although Qualcomm is now down to 28nm). The power saving will be 30% over current 45nm Exynos models, says Samsung, and performance will be increased twofold.
Other improvements, naturally enough for Samsung, concern support for advanced displays - stereoscopic 3D and resolutions up to 2560 x 1600, higher than the iPad HD or iMac. There is power saving here too, with PSR (panel self refresh) technology, which only sends visuals to a screen when an image is moving or changing.
The new processor also uses an ARM Mali T604 graphics processor with four cores. Samsung divides its GPU favors between ARM and Apple's closer partner Imagination Technologies. The chip will also support USB 3.0 for fast transfer with other devices.
Samsung says the new chip has a whole new architecture and so will deliver more radical improvements than previous, more incremental updates. It is not clear when the Exynos 5 Dual will appear in devices, either Samsung's or third party - the upcoming Note 10.1 tablet, which will ship in September, will run on the quad-core Exynos 4. The product is already being manufactured and is likely to be in tablets and other gadgets early next year. ###
>> Samsung Exynos 5 Dual ARM A15 32nm Chipset: Will It Power The Rumored 11.8-Inch Tablet? [Full Specs & Features]
Kukil Bora
international business Times
August 13, 2012 3:46 AM EDT
Last week, Samsung announced its upcoming Exynos 5 Dual chipset, which is expected to be shipped towards the end of this year or early next year. Built on 32nm high-k metal gate (HKMG) process, the Exynos 5 Dual clocks at 1.7GHz and combines two ARM Cortex A15s with an ARM Mali-T604 GPU.
According to Samsung, with all these key upgrades, the SoC (System on a Chip) is expected to provide significant improvements in terms of graphics and battery performance.
The new Exynos 5 Dual chipset includes two ARM Cortex A15 cores running at a speed of up to 1.7GHz with a shared 1MB L2 cache. The newly launched Mali-T604 Quad-core GPU is also claimed to have included in the Exynos 5 Dual and is expected to provide it with a significant edge over the existing 1.4GHz Exynos SoC, which is found in the international version of the Galaxy S3 and the Galaxy Note 10.1.
Samsung said that the new SoC would support display resolutions up to 2560×1600 and would integrate support for other features like USB 3.0, SATA 3, HDMI 1.4, eDP interfaces, stereoscopic 3D, OpenGL ES 3.0, OpenCL 1.1, and DirectX 11 that also points towards Windows RT support.
As noted by BGR, Qualcomm may have the upper hand when it comes to the manufacturing process, but the South Korean tech giant clearly has outdone its competitor by adding the graphical chops in the Exynos 5 dual. The company claimed that the new Mali-T604 GPU would provide a 5X graphical bump from the preceding generation of Mali GPU.
Samsung, however, didn't mention about an integrated LTE radio. Given that only Qualcomm currently has an integrated LTE radio that is considered as a huge advantage in the US, the inclusion of the same in the Exynos 5 Dual could have been a significant edge over the rivals, BGR reported.
With the Snapdragon S4 supporting 500MHz LPDDR2, Qualcomm had overshadowed Samsung as the Exynos 4 supported 800MHz LPDDR3. But now, with Exynos 5 Dual supporting low power RAM, Samsung has turned the game around. The company has improved the RAM support further by adding support for 400MHz LPDDR2 RAM.
Will Exynos 5 Dual Power The Rumored 11.8-Inch Tablet?
With Samsung's official announcement of the Exynos 5 Dual chipset, rumors surrounding an upcoming 11.8-inch tablet have got another boost. According to the company, the new 32nm SoC supports 2560 x 1600 WQXGA resolution, and interestingly, Samsung is rumored as getting the device done at just the same resolution.
The Verge recently reported, citing court documents of the Apple vs. Samsung trial, that the South Korean Galaxy-maker was apparently "working on a tablet codenamed 'P10' that would include LTE connectivity and an 11.8-inch display at 2560 x 1600 (WQXGA) resolution."
Key features of Exynos 5 Dual:
• ARM Cortex-A15 Dual Core processor with the clock speed up to 1.7 GHz (14,000 DMIPS)
• High Memory Bandwidth w/ WQXGA resolution required for graphic-intensive applications (12.8 GB/s)
• Supports LPDDR3/LPDDR2/DDR3 Dual channel memory
• Claimed to be the world's top mobile 3D graphic processor: Supports WQXGA 60 fps 3D graphics
32 nm HKMG process that decreases the power consumption drastically and advanced architecture
Manages power with Multiple Power Domain and Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scalling
• Low-power display scheme that includes embedded DisplayPort and panel self-refresh technology
• System-level power optimization with companion PMIC (S5M8767)
Full-profile support of 1080P 60 fps Multi Format Codec
• High-quality camera with 8Mpixel 30 fps Embedded Image Signal Processor
• Memory sub-set can be pump around 12.8Gbps of data ###
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