Now, to be fair -- let's do the same sort of thing to Samsung's Octa-core monster chip that was first put in a phone fer crying out loud.   Not a big arsed tablet with a super duper 10" display and a huge battery that had a chance to use the chips power level some, but no -- they put it in a phone with a phone sized battery.

.... do we smell an ARM glitch/bobble/bubble working its way to the surface here ??

The charges leveled against Samsung by the new SUPERPHONE phone owners is the next level down not quite a SUPERPHONE  performs just about the exact same-same-same in day to day uses.  

This is because nothing you generally do on a phone ever really takes the 4 little cores up to their max speed and on the very rare times you do something that manages to light up the 4 big cores you can see your battery percentage drop as you watch as all 4 of them big mothers light off at the same time (for a few microseconds, anyway).

Can anybody say "Samsung, the proper one-at-a-time utilization of the big/little pairs in a matched quad core feature set wasn't quite there yet, but you pushed the phone to market anyway just so you could be the first to market with an octa-core big/little."

A fix is coming .....   but will it be retroactive to the existing phones?



http://liliputing.com/2013/07/lilbits-7-18-2013-samsung-exynos-5-octa-update-...

The good news is the one pair at a time fix will improve the "sea of cores utilization" and it will be there in time for the new A53 & A57 64 bit generation which will be along shortly.

Also, Samsung is "oriental face/ego driven" like all the rest of them -- look for a quiet nanometer drop to slide into the correction equation as a quiet performance/battery life booster to Samsung's big dog chipset.   The Exnos Octa was first done at 28nm (the official A7/A15 size) but we do know that 20nm and 18mn is out there in real production right now .....  at Samsung and at TSMC ..... for Apple.






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Yup, it's a bobble.   Intel, can you react well enough to TAKE ADVANTAGE of this bobble while it is STILL there?    Beat ARM's very best while it is in fumble mode?   Pick up that fumble and run with it for a touchdown ???

Aw, gee, your new more better phone chips are still all thin & vaporish at the moment?    Gee ... and none of them are octa anything either, just quad core at best and even then none of them can break 2 gigahertz for speed even if they were for real ....  plus the battery draw on your big quad core sucks so bad it is worse than the old Exnos original Octa core did when boosting all of the bigs at the same time.

That's a shame.   It makes it hard to play football with only one team on the field.

Makes it real hard for you to pick up on them ARM bobbles and fumbles if you haven't got your team out on the grass yet.

(but you are trying to talk about it some now, that's good)


Makes me wonder if Samsung isn't really just making sure they can show fair competition to the new Apple chipset they are frantically & secretly producing for Apple.   It must be a nice one if it makes Samsung tune up their big dog primo chipset voluntarily.