Samsung's next flagship device could sport not four, not six, but eight processor cores if the Korean firm's latest chip is anything to go by.
According to EETimes, Samsung is working on a new processor using ARM's big.little techology, as it looks to expand on the companion core ideology used in Nvidia's Tegra 3 chipset.
Instead of packing a quad-core processor with a fifth core tasked with minor background processes, Samsung plans to sandwich two quad-core chips into one offering.
High and low
It's thought that Samsung will pair four Cortex-A15 cores with four Cortex-A7s, with the higher powered chips used for highly demanding operations.
The lower-powered Cortex-A7 chips will kick in when the load drops, turning off the more powerful cores and letting the less battery-dependent processors deal with day-to-day tasks.
There's no word on when we'll see this eight-core monster land in a phone or tablet, but Samsung are expected to announce details of the processor in February at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference.
It may be cutting it fine to see the eight-core processor land in the Samsung Galaxy S4, due to launch towards the middle of 2013, with some suggesting its more likely to feature in a tablet first.
Source : techradar[dot]com
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