Samsung is preparing to announce some Exynos news at the upcoming CES in Las Vegas. We’re not sure whether this will be a whole new processor, or just an update to existing Exynos 5 Octa series.
For those who don’t know, the Exynos 5 SoC uses ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture and is found in some versions of the company’s flagship devices, namely Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3 (as well as some other devices like Meizu MX3). However, the Note 3 rocks a newer version of the chip (Exynos 5420) which should get the update to enable Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP) capability. This in turn will allow all eight cores (four Cortex-A7 and four Cortex A-15) to work at the same time when needed. On the other hand, the Exynos 5410 which powers some Galaxy S4 units won’t get this capability.
And that’s not all. We know that Samsung wants to make a 64-bit chips and perhaps it uses the big show to announce first such products. This chip, let’s call it Exynos 6, will most-definitely come with HMP capability as well as some other enhancements that should provide sufficient power for today’s mobile users’ needs… More to come, obviously.
[Via: SamMobile]