News - New Details of Samsung's Exynos 5 dual-core SoC emerge

[HEXUS]

USB 3.0 and SATA 3.0 support amongst several interesting new features.

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[kingpotnoodle]

Before we get another "ARM is teh l33t, gonna killz Intel and we all be ARM on desktop by next week" comment lets just put 14,000 DMIPS in context, that's roughly equivalent to a 2005 Athlon 64 X2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second).

Very nice to have that CPU power in such a low TDP, but that's rather to be expected 7-8 years later. ARM architecture lends itself very nicely to phones & tablets, but where we aren't TDP constrained it has a LONG way to go.

Oh DMIPS what a silly measure anyway. Anyone run something like GeekBench on one yet? IIRC the new Tegra3 scores ~1500 whereas an i7 2600K scores an order of magnitude higher.

[Hicks12]

But its a UK company, let them win... its about time we got some companies doing well in the UK, it seems as a whole the government doesnt care about the semiconductor industry and screws us over whereas places like china get millions pumped into research when asked!. Although that could do with the fact gov dont care unless its in london...

Back on track, useful and arm plays to the strength of low tdp designs so keep it up

[Scribe]

Before we get another "ARM is teh l33t, gonna killz Intel and we all be ARM on desktop by next week" comment lets just put 14,000 DMIPS in context, that's roughly equivalent to a 2005 Athlon 64 X2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second).

Very nice to have that CPU power in such a low TDP, but that's rather to be expected 7-8 years later. ARM architecture lends itself very nicely to phones & tablets, but where we aren't TDP constrained it has a LONG way to go.

Oh DMIPS what a silly measure anyway. Anyone run something like GeekBench on one yet? IIRC the new Tegra3 scores ~1500 whereas an i7 2600K scores an order of magnitude higher.

Bare in mind that this is dual-core at 32nm, ARM claims the NEON/FPU vector processing performance has been improved over the A9 so we should see some nice FLOPS figures.

What should be interesting when comparing against something like an i7 however, is that this SoC also features an ARM Mali-T604 which has support for standardised OpenCL 1.1 and DirectX 11, meaning that there's potentially a lot of floating point power that's fairly easy to tap, from the on-die GPU.

If we're talking about scaling up then what interests me a lot is the AMBA® 4 Cache Coherent Interconnect present with the A15, which can potentially allow efficient linking of over 100 cores, I'd be very interested to see how the end product stacks up.

[vrykyl]

When they put this chip in a mobile - im buying it. PLEASE samsung use it in the GS3!!!

[Scribe]

When they put this chip in a mobile - im buying it. PLEASE samsung use it in the GS3!!!

Ditto!

[iamlorro]

Can understand usb 3, but not sure why they're supporting SATA - okay it might be good future proofing, but given that this chip is more likely to be in a phone/tablet ...flash memory is still better in that sort of situation.

or?

[Scribe]

Can understand usb 3, but not sure why they're supporting SATA - okay it might be good future proofing, but given that this chip is more likely to be in a phone/tablet ...flash memory is still better in that sort of situation.

or?

I can think of a few; Ultrabook style SSD, NAS, High-end TV/DVB.