Comments on: Are you ready for the next mobile super chip? Samsung is.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:13:41 +0000

Samsung, in the first half of next year.. is suppose to come out with 24nm quad core chip.

By: Ed Perez

Ed Perez — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 19:54:24 +0000

man you sound so right :)

By: Ed Perez

Ed Perez — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 19:46:46 +0000

let me throw you a ball. the galaxy s 3 uses Samsung Exynos 4 Quad which is the iphone killer. it’s just totally awesome!… Now. the “ipad killer” is going to be using the “Exynos 5 and other Cortex-A15″ — Okay.. the marketing behind ipad is their slogan called “Retain Display”.. [ its just a term] … anyhow, with the the latest power of SoC from Samsung, is going to leap a full speed generation ahead from iphone and ipad :) at the end of 2012. Now i can without a doubt say, android has dominated the field.

By: pkdecville

pkdecville — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:07:05 +0000

“Other improvements? Support for stereoscopic 3D visuals and display resolutions up to WQXGA or 2560×1600; higher than that of both the current iPad and my 27-inch iMac, which is 2560 x 1440.”

I think you overlooked something here:

The current iPad can drive its own display and wirelessly drive an HDTV 1280 display, a pretty neat trick.

And the iMac can drive 2 additional Thunderport displays summing to either a 7680 x 1440 or 1440 x 7680 resolution depending on how you place them.

By: dafowler

dafowler — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:24:49 +0000

Now I’m starting to see why Microsoft ported NT to ARM; its about the future of devices. It will be interesting to see where this goes

By: sciwizam

sciwizam — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:11:02 +0000

I don’t see much battery life differences between a 28nm QCOMM S4 and a 32nm Quad core Exynos4. Intel’s has not yet released any 22nm Atoms, the Medfield SoC is 32nm.

“Mali is still unproven”
The original Mali-400 in the SGS2 and the overclocked Mali-400 in the SGS3 handily beats both QCOMM’s Adreno 205, 220 and NVIDA Tegra2 and Tegra3.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:22:57 +0000

Great comment, Jack, thanks. Yes, QCOM is using their Krait architecture which does bring some of the A-15 benefits. Not sure I’d compare Samsung (or any ARM chip designer) to Intel’s process at this point, given that Intel barely powers any mobile devices in the class, though. As far as my optimism, why shouldn’t we be optimistic for any A-15 chips as opposed to the current crop? Your comment doesn’t really address that, so I’m curious.

By: Jack Gold

Jack Gold — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:12:09 +0000

Several issues with this article. First, QCOMM uses their own architecture, not A9 or A15. Second, while this is a 32 nm chip, much of the industry has already moved to 28 nm, or 24 nm in Intel’s case, meaning Samsung is a generation behind. Smaller geometry means better battery life and lower heat. Third, while the number of cores does not directly mean better performance, the number of graphihcs cores does for many things. Mali is still unproven, and both QCOM and NVidia have proven graphics already shipped with multiple graphics cores. So while I salute Samsung for the improvements its made to its chip, you seem to be overly optimistic about how much this means to the inductry.