Samsung Moves Exynos 5 Octa (5430) To 20 nm, Focuses On Reducing Power Consumption

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In an effort to make its own chips more efficient, Samsung delays big performance increases but significantly cuts down power consumption for the new Exynos 5430 as it moves to the 20 nm manufacturing process.

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[Marc GP]

About time they focused on battery life.

 

[Darkk]

I currently own the Samsung Note 2 and going to upgrade to Note 4 soon as it's released. So not sure if this chip will make it for Note 4 since it's going to be announced next month?

 

[ickibar1234]

Next year should be an interesting year for Intel Atom 14nm versus ARM

 

[InvalidError]

Cue a certain someone, somewhere, saying the Exynos is doomed to become a market failure due to not being up to K1 specs...

Personally, I am glad to see more efficiency-minded phone/tablet SoCs.

 

[edwd2]

Would like to see 6 big cores + 2 little cores instead

 

[InvalidError]

Would like to see 6 big cores + 2 little cores instead

With the amount of trouble they had making big.LITTLE work right, they would be better off going 8 big - between the die shrink, improved transistor efficiency, better clock gating, lower voltage and other improvements, they can probably afford it without taking much of a hit battery-wise.

 

[therealduckofdeath]

I currently own the Samsung Note 2 and going to upgrade to Note 4 soon as it's released. So not sure if this chip will make it for Note 4 since it's going to be announced next month?

The Note 4 will probably mostly use the Snapdragon 805. And according to those who knows, the Exynos 5433 in selected regions, which despite the very similar name to this SoC is a very different processor all in all.

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/exynos-5433-samsung-galaxy-note-4-benchmark-crushes-the-snapdragon-805-1254492

 

[aldaia]

Next year should be an interesting year for Intel Atom 14nm versus ARM

That is what I heard (excluding the 14 nm detail) in 2010 and again in 2011 and again in 2012 and again in 2013 and, I bet, I will hear again in 2015.