Samsung comes with a quad-core-Exynos 4412-soc

Samsung has a quadcore-soc in its Exynos line of mobile processors in the pipeline. The Exynos 4412 will feature four processing cores that use the Cortex A9 design-up chip designer ARM.

The existence of the Exynos 4412 is confirmed by a commit to the Linux kernel that provides support for the quadcorechip added. Samsung-programmer Changhwan Youn carried out the adjustment already in the beginning of October, but these remained hitherto unnoticed. In the attached commentary confirms Youn that the 4412 a system-on-a-chip with four Cortex A9 cores.

Samsung expands its range of Exynos-soc’s in the last months steadily. Earlier this year the company had only the dualcore Exynos 4210 which at 45nm is fried. At the end of september introduced the Exynos 4212 on 32nm is produced, and a clock speed of 1.5 GHz. Last month announced the manufacturer that an upcoming Exynos chip in ARM’s big.Little format, in which a multicorechip a fuel-efficient Cortex A7 core is added to simple tasks to deal with.

Samsung has not yet specified what the chip of the big.Little concept to make use. If this is the 4412, the company has a soc in the hands that is similar to Nvidia’s Tegra 3. Also, this soc has four general processing cores and a fifth efficient core for simple tasks. In which device the 4412 for the first time will be used, it is not yet known. A possible candidate is the successor of the Galaxy S II smartphone, which is probably the end of February at Mobile World Congress is announced.