If you’ve been using smartphones consistently over the past five or so years, you’ll doubtlessly have noticed that, through generations, they have become considerably faster, and this is due largely to the increase in processing power. Samsung has led the way in terms of delivering stronger, more consistent mobile chips for its array of mobile devices, and with 2013 now upon us, has announced and 8-core Exynos 5 Octa mobile processor.
The Exynos 5 Octa makes use of ARM’s new ‘big.LITTLE’ processor technology to flit between between two clusters of four cores each. It’s essentially an amalgam of the ARM Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7, with the former offering raw power and performance whilst the latter supplements by handling the smaller, frequent workloads. This, in turn, improves battery life while making the processor more efficient and well-rounded than any of Samsung’s pre-existing processors.
