Samsung Galaxy S4 Said to Contain Eight Cores
Production of S3 successor's chipsets has reportedly commenced.
Samsung's Galaxy S4 could feature not two, not four, not six, but a total of eight processor cores due to an upcoming chip.
According to EETimes, the technology company is working on a new processor utilizing ARM's big.little technology. As opposed to integrating a quad-core processor with a fifth core given the job of small background processes, Samsung plans to implement two powerful quad-core chips into one smartphone.
It's said that Samsung will couple four Cortex-A15 cores with four Cortex-A7s; the chips which are more powerful will predominately be used for highly demanding tasks.
The Cortex-A7 chips, which are the lower-powered batch of the chipsets, will be utilized once the load drops, leading to the more powerful A15-powered cores being turned off; subsequently, the less battery-dependent processors will deal with daily tasks performed by the user.
Samsung is reported to have started the production of the Galaxy S4's chip, while an official announcement of the device itself is set for CES 2013 in January.

consecutive 2 articles contradicting each other
Zak is just trolling...
consecutive 2 articles contradicting each other
Zak is just trolling...
Why must they murder the phone's day to day tasks with slower performance than the phone is capable of , the main use of the phone is day-to-day tasks, and the gaming and performance are the extra, but now the day to day tasks get to be slower than the S3, for better app performance ? Sigh
Stupid on Samsung's part. Instead of slamming "higher performing cores", slap the A15s and introduce better P and C states in them. I'm surprised they think this is a viable solution!
Cheers!
Or what, did you think 4 cores would be enough for everybody?
dual-core...... oh good!!! better multitasking and threaded performance!!!
quad-core...... hmm... desktop still can run most games well in dual-core... maybe for more future proofing?
AAAND HERES THE EIGHT CORE!!! ......
Zak should go back to apple news reporting
I think Sammy is just flexing their muscles to show what they can do.
If this is true (and Zak did contradict himself), then Samsung is indeed flexing its muscles and/or knows something about soon to be released apps that will take advantage of such massive horsepower. We just gotta hope battery life will not drop at all (but improve).
PS3 on our phone!
You do realize Zak is citing 2 different sources. How dare he report from two sources that have 2 different view points on what the S4's CPU will be!
It's almost as bad as a financial channel / website having one article about someone who is Bullish on stock XYZ then later another analyst comes out that is Bearish and they have a second article. The nerves!
In addition, Batman can now tap into phones for sonar purposes, and the user will never notice a drop in performance.
I would not mind a phone with 16 cores, 8gb ram, and 3 Micro SD slots......... and a battery with 4 times the life mine has now.
It will happen even if you want to complain about it now. Its just a matter of when. The Micro SD XCHC spec with Xfat file system support will take memory cards from 64gb to 2TB on mobile devices...... I am waiting for Sandisk to release a 2TB memory card for my Galaxy S3..... I give it 24 months.
We should see 128 and 256gb micro memory cards hit the market in less than 5 months from now.
Zak should go back to apple news reporting
Article 1: "A report is suggesting that Samsung's unannounced Galaxy S4 will sport a quad-core A15 chip, alongside a 13-megapixel camera."
Article 2: "It's said that Samsung will couple four Cortex-A15 cores with four Cortex-A7s; the chips which are more powerful will predominately be used for highly demanding tasks."
One article says it will have an A15. The other article says it'll have an A15 and 4 A7s. That's not really contradictory; besides, these are all rumors to begin with.