News - Samsung high-end tablets get Exynos 5250 dual-core chip

[HEXUS]

Samsung announces first dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 processor.

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[crossy]

Offering twice the amount of CPU performance than Samsung’s current dual-core Cortex-A9 based Exynos chips, and quadruple the graphical power, the Exynos 5250, 2GHz dual-core Cortex-A15 processor will be mass-produced for the company’s high-end tablets in 2012, and might even be used to power the rumoured Samsung Galaxy S3.

No, no, no, no ... the S3 must be quad core, not slow old dual core. After all, how else are S3 owners going to lord it over iPhone5 ones?!
(In case anyone missed out, I was of course being sarcastic)

4x graphics performance sounds definitely worth having - anyone got any decent links with comparisons with Tegra3 (or any of the other newish chipsets)? Only thing I'm slighty confused about is that TI's A15 SOC was claiming 3x speed increase over the A9-based one - is this down to better support, or has TI done a better job than Samsung in wringing out the performance?

[Roobubba]

Tasty!

[Metal_head25]

with regards to the post shouldnt it say "2 instrustions per cycle" rather than "2 instructions per second"

unless you have an extremely multithreaded program .... dual core all the way!

Has this chip been announced as a big.LITTLE chip with CORTEXA7s in it aswell for power reduction?

[mark22]

Can't wait!