| wick said: And again for all the people posting about 8 cores being overkill and draining the battery. |
Yes, it's all tech to get a lot more power with the same, or maybe better, battery-life. This tech will be one of the big hits from ARM in the next few years. But Samsung is to blame here, they are trying to advertise it as an octa-core instead of explaining what it really is. But with time this will just get a lot more clear for everyone.
When Tegra 3 was launched, a lot of people said it was a 5-core processor, now you only see people calling it quad-core, which is the correct assumption. The same will eventually happen to Exynos. But I think that Sammy should advertise the truth, because it is much more interesting than the 8-core talk. Quad-core phones already are pretty fast, but battery-life is poor. I usually get 1 or 2 days from my devices. If someone creates a smartphone with a 4-core processor that gan give me at least 4 days, it's a day-one buy for me. Samsung have a nice solution and should simply advertise it for everyone since they will have the only BIG.little processor for a time, GS4 could even be the only phone with this tech in all 2013.
