CES 2013 Keynote: Samsung Exynos 5 Octa & Flexible Display

CES 2013 Keynote: Samsung Exynos 5 Octa & Flexible Display

Posted by Charbax – January 11, 2013

Samsung launches Exynos 5 Octa big.LITTLE (quad-A15 and quad-A7), Flexible OLED, Green LCD and Green Memory Solution at CES 2013. Here's the full 1-hour keynote video:

Category: Samsung, CES, Android
10 Comments – Feed

Marc Guillot

What a beast :),

I hope they implement the full big.LITTLE specification, so you can use the 8 cores at the same time when you need max performance.
Jml

WARNING WARNING POWER HOG APPROACHING WARNING!!!
Jml

That won’t happen because both set of quad cores have completely different uses. One is for Max battery life and the other for Max performance.
Marc Guillot

Wouldn’t be better to wait for a reviewed real product before say that.

Big.LITTLE architecture has been designed specifically to save power. Give them some credit.
Marc Guillot

Big.LITTLE has different operating modes, on MP mode all cores can run simultaneously.

http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/2011/12/15/big-little-technology-two-usage-models/
Jml

If the OS is able to run all of the cores at once and if the program or programs in question support eight cores.
Marc Guillot

Yeah, that’s why I said that I hope they implement the full specification (Linux and Linux apps are more than capable to feed 8 cores). I want to see this SoC on an Ubuntu station.
Jml

Talk about POWER HOG!!!!!! ARM Cortex A-15 is fast but it uses 2x power in order to get that fast.
Jml

No because anandtech’s review of Google chrome book should tell you what you need to know. Dual core Arm cortex a-15 Chromebook uses 12 watts compared to the much older atom based Chromebook which one used 15 watts. ARM is supposed to be about low power usage but ARM Cortex A-15 broke that model INTO PIECES. If Intel plays their cards right ARM IS IN A LOT OF TROUBLE Not to mention MIPS which has the lower power usage I seen to date.
Jml

Very few apps uses 8 cores let alone 4 cores. Most games 2 cores at most.

http://armdevices.net/category/companies/pipo/