Guest Victor von Zeppelin Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 We pretty much know that Samsung’s May 3rd event will see the announcement of the Galaxy S3, but until then Samsung just can’t resist announcing things. The latest announcement comes in the form of the Exynos 4 Quad, aka the Exynos 4212. The biggest difference between the new chip and the one found in the Galaxy S II is that it’s, pretty obviously, a quad core part. Other features include it making use of a 32nm fabrication process, unlike the previous generation which used 40nm. This change should give better power efficiency to whilst allowing it to run faster and cooler. Samsung are also touting High-K Gate technology and dynamic voltage control, to further improve battery life. Otherwise, there’s not much new information here, but we’re glad to be given a spot of info when it comes to where we’ll find the chip – in the next Galaxy device. Samsung say: Already in production, the Exynos 4 Quad is scheduled to be adopted first into Samsung’s next Galaxy smartphone that will officially be announced in May. Samsung’s Exynos 4 Quad is also sampling to other major handset makers. Source: Samsung Performance benchmarks that have leaked through Antutu and such make the Exynos look incredibly powerful. It'll be interesting to finally see how it stacks up against the Snapdragon S4 and the Tegra 3. This item was promoted to the News page - click here to view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest someone3974 Posted April 28, 2012 Report Share Posted April 28, 2012 Thanks for the news. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eLJay Posted April 28, 2012 Report Share Posted April 28, 2012 I hadn't realised they were so behind on the chip fabrication sizes, imagine if they started using the latest fab sizes for their chips. I wonder how scale-able these are, of course the laws of diminishing returns means that adding more cores has less benefit after a few but that probably just means we need more work on parallelism in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Victor von Zeppelin Posted April 29, 2012 Report Share Posted April 29, 2012 I hadn't realised they were so behind on the chip fabrication sizes, imagine if they started using the latest fab sizes for their chips. I wonder how scale-able these are, of course the laws of diminishing returns means that adding more cores has less benefit after a few but that probably just means we need more work on parallelism in general. I don't know if it's entirely old, tbh. Tegra 3 is still on 40nm, positively old now compared to the Exynos. Only Intel have reached 22nm, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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