Samsung Introduces 6 and 8 Core Processor

In addition to a series of new gadgets, Mobile World Congress 2014 held in Barcelona, Spain is also used to introduce a pair of Samsung's new mobile processor, Samsung Exynos 5 Octa 5422 and Samsung Exynos 5260.

Although not carrying the 64-bit architecture as previously thought, the processor is equipped with two processing cores (cores) amounted to much.

As quoted from Ars Technica , Exynos 5 Octa 5422 is a model with eight cores consisting of four core Cortex A15 speed of 2.1 GHz and four -core 1.5 GHz Cortex A7 . Graphics processor (GPU) that used is the ARM Mali T628 MP6.

The eight core processor Exynos 5422 Octa 5 big.LITTLE run in a configuration where the core A15 handles tasks demanding high performance while core A7 will take over the tasks of light to save power .

Unlike the previous model which was released a year ago, eight cores in Exynos 5 Octa 5422 can be activated at once if necessary.

Processors are occupying top positions in the hierarchy of Samsung's mobile chip is planned to be invested in a number of international versions of the Galaxy Smartphone S5.

The mobile version which was announced Monday, February 24 and use the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and intended for the U.S. market.

Different processor strategy for different markets previously has been applied to the Samsung Galaxy S4.

The Exynos 5 Hexa 5260 is a mid-range processor that armed 6 cores, consisting of four 1.3 GHz cores Cortex A7 and Cortex A15 two 1.7 GHz cores. GPUs are used is unknown, but certainly comes from a family of ARM Mali.

The Exynos 5 Hexa 5260 could power consumption savings for high-performance cores only comes in much smaller amounts than his brother.

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Batery Saving Tricks in 8 Core Samsung Processor

How many pieces of the ideal number of core processors for mobile devices? One, two, four, or eight? The number of the latter is chosen Samsung for its latest series mobile processor, Exynos 5 Octa.

It was announced Samsung at CES stage, January 9, 2013, as if not to be outdone the other two manufacturers of processors, Nvidia and Qualcomm, which also introduces mainstay respectively.

Even has a number of core two times more than the previous generation processor, Exynos 5 Octa promised power efficient and will not waste battery high-end Smartphone or tablet wear.

Therefore, the eight core processor Exynos 5 Octa, only four that have high performance. The fourth core Cortex A15 based architecture, just like yours Exynos 5 Dual processor used in tablet Nexus 10. The remaining four cores using the basic architecture of the Cortex A7 is optimized for power efficiency, not performance.

This configuration is the result of the application of the concept of “big.LITTLE “from ARM. The eight -core Exynos 5 Octa will share the workload dynamically according to the number of system load. For example, browsing or other mild case handled by the A7 cores, while core A15 will take over while running games or apps “heavy " other.

Exynos 5 Octa will be one of the first processor that implements the concept big.LITTLE, if not actually the first. The concept is slightly different from the approach taken in the processor Nvidia Tegra 3 and Tegra 4, in which the chip manufacturers embed an additional core (companion core) that can only be used when all four main cores is turned off.

Exynos 5 Octa will be made with the 28nm fabrication processes that promise more efficient use of power than the 32nm process used to make the Exynos 5 Dual.

Problem couple of graphics processors (GPU) used in this SoC, Samsung does not provide specific information except the claim that its performance will be two times faster than previous generation processors.

If the processor "older generation" is Samsung's Exynos 4 covers, Samsung Exynos 5 Octa will probably be put on the Mali- T604 GPU as that used by Samsung Exynos 5 Dual.

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The Reason Mark Zuckerberg buy WhatsApp

Facebook announced WhatsApp acquired by spending U.S. $ 19 billion.

Quoted from The Telegraph, As a founding Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg admitted this step is a desire to connect people across world.

"Our mission is to want to make the world more open and connected. We do this so that everyone can divide any content to others without limitation. WhatsApp will help us develop the services and I hope everyone in the world will like it" said Mark.

Mark admitted select WhatsApp chat applications because it is very simple, fast, and reliable. He also assessing an application that already has 450 million users has become a daily necessity for many people communicate globally.

"Within the next few years, we will help WhatsApp to continue to grow and connect users in around the world"said Mark.

In addition, Mark admitted already familiar with Jan Koum, founder of WhatsApp. Mark explained he and Jan have the same vision. He also considered Jan and his team have a remarkable way of working, so that applications homemade can unite people.

"I am very pleased to join with us in January agreed to equally build WhatsApp and Facebook be more great" said Mark.

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WhatsApp CEO: We Will Not Changed

 CEO WhatsApp Jan Koum

Once acquired Facebook, some people assume WhatsApp will change the system services.  CEO WhatsApp Jan Koum guarantees that there will be no change of chat services have collected 419 million the user.

"There will never be a partnership between the two companies if we have to compromise on core principles have always been the company, including vision and our products. We are not going to change, "wrote Koum on his blog, Wednesday, February 19, 2014.

WhatsApp and Facebook will operate separately. Through a statement, Mark Zuckerberg also pledged not will slip annoying ads WhatsApp user communications. In addition, users will only be charged very little to use this service. Koum said the deal was forged not only for business. WhatsApp koum want to grow bigger and Still presents a communication service that is fast, affordable, and personalized to users.

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