CES 2013 With its Exynos chip 5 Octa Samsung combines 2 x 4 cores

Designed for smartphones and tablets, the 8-core Exynos chip ARM 5 Octa Samsung offers more performance while sparing the life of the battery. For now, the manufacturer has not specified a release date for its processor.

Simply, the Exynos 5 Octa result of the union of two quad-core ARM chips, one with four cores high performance Cortex A-15 for demanding tasks like gaming and video playback, and the other with less powerful quad-core Cortex-A7, but low energy-saving, for common tasks such as sending SMS and emails.

As stated by Stephen Woo, President of the components division of Samsung Electronics at CES 2013 conference which is being held in Las Vegas and attended by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, "the Exynos 5 Octa is designed for smartphones and tablets upscale. "It did not say when this chip is marketed. The Exynos 5 Octa will compete with Nvidia Tegra processors 4 and 800 series chips Qualcomm announced earlier this week. According to the manufacturers, the first terminals integrating their chips should be out in the second half of this year.

During the conference, Stephen Woo has shown a prototype of Octa at work, taking for example a reservation at a restaurant. "A tablet equipped with the Exynos 5 Octa be able to load the restaurant's page, download the reservation application and search its location at the same time,"-said. It also wanted to show the performance of the chip with a 3D video game, but took 30 seconds engineer for Samsung to start. Finally, participants were able to see the fluidity of the graphics in the game.

Compared to current chips from Samsung, the Exynos 5 Octa reduces up to 70% energy consumption, but Korean leader did not explain how this figure was calculated. In fact, the Samsung chip based on the ARM architecture big.Little which allows chips to work together high performance and low energy.