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Samsung today officially introduced what it claims is the world's first quad-core application processor built on the High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) low-power process technology. It's called the Exynos 4 Quad, a 32nm 1.4GHz quad-core processor based on the ARM Cortex A9 architecture. With twice as many cores as its predecessor, the 45nm Exynos 4 Dual, Samsung claims the Exynos 4 Quad doubles the processing potential with a 20 percent lower power footprint.
"The quad-core processor offers phenomenal multitasking abilities surpassing any single or dual application processor. Since all the cores must share a single battery, the power management and efficiency in the limited battery capacity are indispensable for mobile computing devices," said Taehoon Kim, vice president of System LSI marketing, Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics. "Given the diverse functionalities consumers are demanding from their mobile devices today, the Exynos 4 Quad meets those high-performance needs while keeping power consumption very low."
One of the neat things about the Exynos 4 Quad is that it's pin-to-pin compatible with the 32nm based Exynos 4 Dual, which makes it easier for mobile device makers to adopt the new part. From a performance standpoint, Samsung says the Exynos 4 Quad is tops when it comes to heavy-load applications like 3D games, video editing, and calculation-intensive simulation.
"With Exynos 4 Quad, you experience console-like gaming wherever you go," Samsung claims.
The Exynos 4 Quad will provide the performance foundation for Samsung's upcoming Galaxy smartphone, which will be officially introduced in May, and is currently being sampled to other device makers.
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krash3x
April 27, 2012 at 2:05am
You know that they are suggesting the ps3 or the xbox 360, but they mean the Wii. So I guess what they are trying to say is that phones are reaching what low end gaming rigs reached 10 years ago yet are inferior because they lack buttons. Game consoles suck and are stagnant.
vrmlbasic
April 26, 2012 at 1:48pm
Maybe it's showing that the marketing hype works, but I do want a quad core phone. More cores, with at least the same single-threaded performance, with _lower_ power consumption?! Who wouldn't want that?
I'm also drawing exception with the "console-like" graphics. The 360 and PS3 struggle to run at 720p and crutch on upscaling for 1080 by and large. Smartphones are quickly approaching 1080 and higher. Today's console technology would struggle to drive games on tomorrow's phones.
Tomorrow's phones will have higher screen resolutions than what modern consoles were built for and will have more RAM and more cores. Even if they aren't directly comparable, I still expect _better_ performance from these phones than what I can get from my 360. Due in no small part to PC gaming showing me just how bad console games look.
This article doesn't specify which console so this chip could pump out graphics at an N64 level and still technically live up to its claims. Weak :(
The Droid Razr by Motorola is quickly losing its "too powerful to fall into the wrong hands" claim :(
kixofmyg0t
April 27, 2012 at 9:55am
The PowerVR SGX 540 that's in the DROID RAZR(and the Galaxy Nexus...AND my Bionic) came out in November 2007.
One year after the PS3 came to market with it's massively more powerful GPU.
The current king of the mobile GPU area is Tegra3.....which comes within spitting distance of the first Xbox.
"Console like" yes, but they didn't say which generation.
kixofmyg0t
April 26, 2012 at 7:41am
"Console like".
Riiiight. Devs are still catering to the iPhone crowd. We won't get anything close to "Console like" anytime soon. Shadowgun is possible the best looking Android game out...... It still doesn't hold a candle to Infinity Blade.
