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Samsung presents Orion - a dual-core ARM Cortex A9 CPU

7 September, 2010 | Read the news | Post your comment
Samsung presents Orion - a dual-core ARM Cortex A9 CPU - read the full textSamsung unveiled the successor of their highly popular Hummingbird processor - Orion. The new platform is based on 1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex A9 CPU, packs a vastly better GPU and allows 1080p video encoding/decoding. Plus there is support for up to three displays. The mobile scene just got on...

 

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Orion's CPU core will perform about the same as other Cortex A9 based processors. The most interesting aspect of Orion is its GPU - Samsung claims it is up to 5 times faster than Hummingbird, which is already the fastest on the market! If this is true, Samsung will again have the fastest GPU on the market amongst Cortex A9 based processors (well, at least according to this article)!

Here's a good article for Samsung Orion, if yo want to know a bit more details on this processor:

http://smartphonebenchmarks.co.../94-looking- into-samsung-orion-samsungs-implementation-of-ar­m-cortex-a9/

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  • 2010-09-23 19:05
  • 4tky

Apple? OMG, chocolate mouse! (goose) what kind of bananna calls his company "Apple" anyway? I mean lets face it we all seen the looney bin Jobs and his lifestyle, well good for you all you sheep, keep comercializing Apple shit until we all wear nothing but white and walk around hailing "hail Galaxar"! then again, sheep will be sheep they dont have their own thoughts.

Give us our Android and WP7 devices with this beasted CPU long before "Crapple" gets their white clean paws on it!

Hail Galaxar!

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  • 2010-09-16 12:12
  • sGWi

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2010-09-09 12:32 from I4xS - click to readgo in a corner and weap....apple is in the ground
who cares about an new ipod where this is a thread about a new and better procesor?...

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  • 2010-09-12 11:26
  • Laxe

hmm, sumsung is not about installing this hi-tech, is about the slicky things u can make it do

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  • 2010-09-10 12:27
  • ftVi

apple new ipod touch is out! Move aside all you cheap imitations! Apple rules our lives! Hail! Hail!

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  • 2010-09-09 12:32
  • I4xS

put these in production immediately please

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  • 2010-09-09 08:51
  • 4U@y

Dual core chip for mobile...that's cool...advance technology is always welcome...
Samsung, can you coordinate with Intel to let your processors do Hyper Threading...
We are technology hungry :)

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  • 2010-09-09 03:58
  • qGw%

I guess the most interesting development is not about this Dual Core itself, but rather, the technology that makes energy efficiency to power these processors for mobile phones ...... or not?

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  • 2010-09-09 03:43
  • LyFB

Nope battery life is not the concern. The popular Samsung WAVE is also using the ARM Cortex A8 @ 1Ghz clock speed, and it don't have any battery life issue at all. Further more it perform even faster than it rival iPad and iPhone.

Great to hear that it's going for dual core.

Keep going SAMSUNG.

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  • 2010-09-09 02:51
  • iba@

> In reply to DeJust @ 2010-09-08 13:09 from fjZc - click to readSmart observation dude.

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  • 2010-09-08 21:38
  • 0C3y

> In reply to SHAHDAB KHAN @ 2010-09-08 19:14 from 2Z10 - click to readYes, yes and lately the worst hardware possible.Indeed,in this field, the Samsung already passed Nokia ahead. When we will see a Nokia tablet or a smartphone with a Arm Cortex A9 MPCore in near future, tell me. Nor here a year!

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  • 2010-09-08 20:38
  • Tqc2

i don't think any thing better then nokia the best and user friendly interface provides nokia only.
no brand is better then nokia feature wise nokia is nokia the most trusted brand in the whole world.
which provides best option for user to take backup of his phone contains software update buy user only and many more.

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  • 2010-09-08 19:14
  • 2Z10

When i read that I got rare feeling that I have already read that and what was written was about 5 years ago. Some sentimental feeling that this dual core WAS just a beginning to evolutionary change ... :P lol

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  • 2010-09-08 18:39
  • 9xmV

Easy answer: use solar panel in the back for recharge the mobile, samsung have a device with this idea, and someone tell me dont need recharge for one week.

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  • 2010-09-08 17:05
  • Lqdc

> In reply to Dual core cpus @ 2010-09-07 23:50 from 0xYn - click to readwierd how every pc including netbooks are getting multicore cpu's, so what you say has no substance..

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  • 2010-09-08 15:55
  • TqjQ

battery life may be one of the concern

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  • 2010-09-08 13:56
  • t7BV

> In reply to tim @ 2010-09-08 09:55 from nntB - click to readIt lasts more than 4 hours I guarantee you

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  • 2010-09-08 13:35
  • SqIR

I really like what Samsung and LG are doing, along with Sharp and Toshiba supply the whole world with components but they don't sell second-grade components so that they can be ahead, but promote fair competition by giving the best components to rival companies such as Apple and the like.

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  • 2010-09-08 13:09
  • fjZc

> In reply to Lhon0901 @ 2010-09-08 11:55 from tWiD - click to readthey don't really need to break the GGhtz barrier yet mate. As long as they are running 2mb apps, there isn't really a rush yet.

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  • 2010-09-08 12:33
  • syax

This is a good development and all, considering dual-core CPUs are just even being talked about last year, but I hope they break the 1GHZ barrier soon, so that smartphones can be just as powerful as laptops/netbooks and could have the capability of running the full windows/MAC OSes...

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  • 2010-09-08 11:55
  • tWiD
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