The company's new chip, which is based on four ARM Cortex-A15 processors, is slated for widespread production in August. July 23, 2013 5:20 AM PDT (Credit: Samsung) Samsung has updated its already popular Exynos 5 Octa processor. Samsung's update doubles the graphics processing power of its previous Exynos 5 Octa, the company announced on Tuesday. In addition, it's powered by four 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A15 processors and four 1.3GHz Cortex-A7 cores, providing 20 percent more CPU processing than the predecessor. Related stories When notebooks squeeze Intel out Curved OLED TVs arrive in America Samsung ships $15K curved OLED TV to U.S. this week Samsung developers conference starts Oct. 27 in San Francisco More work ahead in Apple, Samsung antitheft crack attack According to Samsung, it's been seeing increasing demand for mobile processors that can deliver high-end graphics processing. The company's latest Exynos 5 will deliver that, but will also cut down on power consumption, according to Samsung. The octa-core processor from Samsung has been around for months, but it's been available in just a few of the company's products. The Samsung Galaxy S4 is arguably the most notable Exynos 5-based device, but that's been extremely hard to come by in North America. Samsung has not said what products might be running its updated Exynos 5 Octa, but the company is currently sampling it to customers. Mass-production on the Exynos 5 is slated to begin in August.
The company's new chip, which is based on four ARM Cortex-A15 processors, is slated for widespread production in August.
(Credit: Samsung)
Samsung has updated its already popular Exynos 5 Octa processor.
Samsung's update doubles the graphics processing power of its previous Exynos 5 Octa, the company announced on Tuesday. In addition, it's powered by four 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A15 processors and four 1.3GHz Cortex-A7 cores, providing 20 percent more CPU processing than the predecessor.
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According to Samsung, it's been seeing increasing demand for mobile processors that can deliver high-end graphics processing. The company's latest Exynos 5 will deliver that, but will also cut down on power consumption, according to Samsung.
The octa-core processor from Samsung has been around for months, but it's been available in just a few of the company's products. The Samsung Galaxy S4 is arguably the most notable Exynos 5-based device, but that's been extremely hard to come by in North America.
Samsung has not said what products might be running its updated Exynos 5 Octa, but the company is currently sampling it to customers. Mass-production on the Exynos 5 is slated to begin in August.
