We would almost say that unsurprisingly, cross statements between manufacturers of processors for mobile devices with respect to the new chips presented in the CES de Las Vegas, have started to appear. Paul Jacob, CEO of Qualcomm, was the first to open fire and the first shot was received Samsung, whose new processors he says are a advertising hoax.
At CES de Las Vegas We met all the great exponents of the new generation of mobile processors for mobile devices and, in light of what we saw there, the future looks really promising in this section. But, as is often the case, the better a sector gets for consumers, the more rivalry arises between manufacturers. They are the two logical faces of the competition and, without a doubt, there will be a lot of competition between the new ones Snapdragon, Integra 4, Atom Clover Trail + and 5 Exynos Octa, so it's not really surprising that they're starting to mess up.
As we already told you, the new developments of the different companies seem to have gone in quite different directions. While for him Integra 4 de Nvidia the priority, apparently, has been to increase graphics processing power (with 6 times more cores in their GPU which Integra 3) and for the new Snapdragon by Qualcomm has been to increase the performance of the CPU (until reaching the 2,3 GHz in the Snapdragon 800), the new ones 5 Exynos Octa de Samsung They sought to attract attention with their 8 nuclei and its potential for save battery. Well, according to Jacobs, this strategy of the South Koreans would be little less than "to make a virtue of necessity": as the energy consumption of the chips of Samsung is so high, they have had to include another set of 4 cores to keep it within normal limits but, since they do not work simultaneously, talking about 8-core processors would be nothing more than a hoax, since there is no real improvement of performance.
For now, we will have to wait to see the new 5 Exynos Octa running (it seems that the Galaxy Note III will be one of the first devices to incorporate it) to check if the criticisms made from Qualcomm they are proven accurate and, indeed, the new processor does not represent any improvement over the previous generation.
Source: Android Authority.
[Upgrade] We have spoken with Qualcomm and have learned that the statements of the CEO of the Company, Steve Jacobs, have not at any time gone in the direction of affirming or implying in any way that Samsung had used misleading advertising, but rather focus on the number of cores, is misleading. Jacobs' statements were taken out of context because the original source was not translated correctly from Chinese.