Let me continue from my previous blog on Samsung Galaxy S4. So what is that most exciting part of Samsung Galaxy S4? It is its heart and brain – its central processor Exynos 5 Octa. This mighty processor packs 4 cores of Cortex A15 and 4 core of Cortex A7 in a small chip using 28 nanometer process.
You must be wondering why I am raving so much about this processor. That is, because this is where I think future of computing is going to be. I firmly believe that server side computing will eventually move to cloud and remote hosted server farms. Personal and on-premise computing for small and medium size business will eventually shift to computer powered by such processors.
As stated earlier, Exynos5 Octa packs quad cores of 1.8 GHz A15 and quad core of 1.2 GHz A7. Even though Samsung press release does not clearly states this, it appears that these processors are arranged in a big.LITTLE architecture that allows all core to be used concurrently but with heavy duty tasks going to power hungry and more powerful A15 cores and lighter tasks getting assigned to A7 cores. In addition, this processor comes with a Tri-core SGX544MP3 533 MHz GPU capable of delivering 51.2 GFLOPS of processing power.
Such processors are really powerful, capable of supporting high end graphics processing, voice recognition, and if needed, algorithms for optimization and computing. I foresee such processors also getting a foothold in business computing. I look forward to other releases of octal core and higher density processors from competitors.
PS: Yesterday I received my Freescale quad core processor based little toy computer from China. It is an inexpensive tiny little thing, but packs more computing power than an average entry level laptop.
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