Mass production of Samsung Exynos Octa five starts in the second quarter

As we have mentioned, the announcement of an eight-core mobile processor Samsung Exynos 5 Octa held at CES in January of this year, but then nothing was said about the timing of the new solution. Now, the company Samsung Electronics has announced that the mass production of these chips will start in the second quarter of this year. This processor will be used in the new flagship smartphone Samsung GALAXY S4, which was announced recently (in the U.S. market will be used Qualcomm Snapdragon 600).

Recall, Samsung Exynos processor uses five Octa big.LITTLE, which involves the work of four high-performance cores ARM Cortex-A15 for high-level tasks and four ARM Cortex-A7 for simpler tasks, and energy efficiency. Processor is made in accordance with rules 28-nm process technology, enables fast processing of 3D-graphics, and support for video recording and playback up to 1080p at 60 frames per second.