Update Will Unlock All Eight Cores in Exynos 5 Octa

[exfileme]

Samsung is finally using the big.LITTLE MP architecture in its eight-core chip.

Update Will Unlock All Eight Cores in Exynos 5 Octa : Read more

 

[yannigr]

Someone should thank mediatek for this.

 

[stingstang]

There goes the battery life

 

[Steveymoo]

ARM chips feel a bit like Intel in the early days. When you couldn't really tinker with them much, and the architecture just wasn't mature enough to overclock the hell out of.

 

[edwd2]

why not do 6 cores instead of jumping straight to 8 at the same time.

 

[rwinches]

^ Up to all eight cores at the same time.
It's done on a thread basis.

 

[darkchazz]

My current Note 2 will be my last exynos device as long as they keep not releasing sources and documentation.
For once, I'd like to flash stable full-speed cyanogen mod and AOKP roms.

 

[virtualban]

Now to get heterogeneous cores for the PC...

 

[irish_adam]

Why didn't they enabled all 8 cores in the first place to save all that hassle? =(

You have to remember that Samsung doesnt really design the architecture of the chips ARM does that, it wasnt designed for all 8 cores to work at the same time. Samsung have probably been working on a way to use all 8 cores since the beginning but have only now managed to release it to the public. At the end of the day its a bonus to those with the chip in their phones

 

[maddad]

Once again an "APPLE" announcement pays dividends to some "Android" folks. I suspect SAMSUNG had the ability to do this all along; they just didn't need to until the fruit company announced a 64bit phone!

 

[KillYourConsole]

why not do 6 cores instead of jumping straight to 8 at the same time.

Do you work for Intel?

 

[redeemer]

s800 thanks

 

[leeashton]

there goes performance, the 4 faaster A15 will down clock to the slower A7, then there is instruction sets that A15 supports that A7 cant!

 

[CommentariesAnd More]

If this update does the trick for the ODROID XU too , it will be the game changer for the competition to the Parallela. Just wondering how this update works on and which one of this beauties will be on my desk ?