La CES 2013, those from Samsung presented the processors Exynos 5 Octa, the first octo-core processors developed specifically for Android mobile terminals. At that moment, almost everyone realized that the years 2013 and 2014 will bring us a lot of smartphones and tablets equipped with processors that have 8 cores, and Samsung is not the only manufacturer that "embraces" this trend. It seems that, those from LG will launch mobile terminals with their own octo-core processors, which will reach the market in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2013.
LG Electronics is going to mass-produce the Odin processors by using finer 28-nanometer level processing, applying high-k metal gate (HKMG) technology. The processors will be used in LG's next flagship Optimus smartphone ― the Optimus GII ― which will probably be unveiled in this fall's IFA trade fair. Odin is a major god in Norse mythology and the ruler of Asgard. LG Electronics hopes to make a big impact on the global mobile application market...
Odin is the name of the processors developed by LG, they are composed of 4 Cortex-A15 cores and 4 Cortex-A7 cores, exactly like the configuration of the processors developed by Samsung. ARM big.LITTLE was chosen by both producers for Exynos 5 Octa si Odin, but for now the quad-core processors seem to do very well with the Android OS system. Even so, Samsung has always been interested in presenting pompous specifications for its terminals, so Samsung Galaxy S IV it will probably be the first smartphone with an octo-core processor.
