Monday, April 18, 2011

Samsung wants two cores at 2 GHz in 2012

Samsung hopes - in 2012 - to produce smartphones with processors clocked at 2 GHz, with two cores. Frequency than others, like Texas Instruments or Qualcomm should also be achieved. This is obviously ARM processors, the architecture in vogue, and it is a priori the ARM Cortex A15 to reach this frequency in the Korean company.

The company says - Intel appreciated - it is easier to reach 4 GHz with a single core as 2 GHz with two cores, but that Samsung has chosen the "difficulty" because the dual core processors are effective multitasking with smartphones . And the company also says only 2 GHz, a smartphone will be closer to today's PCs.

We can still consider Samsung as very optimistic current systems take advantage of poorly multiple processors cores. And say it is easier to propose a processor to a core to a 4 GHz dual core 2 GHz is fun: Intel has never really managed to exceed the 4 GHz processors and very little beyond this frequency commercially .

Finally, remember that if the ARM processors consume less, they are not powerhouses. The Cortex A9 The ARM core is currently the most powerful, is the level of a Pentium Pro at the architectural level and a simple Atom is faster at the same frequency. Even if the Cortex A15 is more efficient, it will be far from a simple Core i3 or K10.

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