Samsung's ARM Processor : Exynos 5 Octa Enters Production Line.

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  Anand Tamariya

  Mathematically, but performance wise it will be less as 4-cores are fast while other 4 cores are slow

  Less than what?
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  Abhishek Rawal

  Anand Tamariya

  Less than what?

  Less than 8 core processor which doesn't use two ARMs like in Exynos.
  
  Let me make it simpler :
  In Exynos Cortex A15 & Cortex A7 is used.One is slower than other.
  
  Now consider an ARM with 2xCortex A15 which means both are running at same speed.
  
  So,ARM with 8 cores using same architecture in it will run faster than 8 core Exynos which is running with two 4-core Cortex one slow & other fast.
  
  Hope I succeeded in clearing out the query.
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  Anand Tamariya

  Hmm.. my point was - why make such comparison when Exynos is the first octa-core mobile CPU in the market! After all, Samsung is NOT hiding the fact that not all the cores run at the same speed. And in mobile market, efficiency is as important as speed (reason why intel is finding it hard to gain traction).
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  Abhishek Rawal

  Exynos is not Octa-core,Samsung itself says so !
  I don't think intel is interested in mobile processor market like Nvidia Tegra series, Qualcomm & Exynos are.