The title of the first company to introduce a real eight-core mobile processor, this week was assigned to the Chinese MediaTek. Solutions Exynos 5 Octa, presented by Samsung at the beginning of this year and used, particularly in smartphones Galaxy S4, as an eight can be considered only formally, since the cores are arranged in a pattern on ARM big.LIITLE and can not work simultaneously.
Samsung, however, still plans to release a processor that will be able to use all eight cores at the same time. It is expected that Samsung will make an appropriate announcement in early 2014, and eight-core processors will be used in the high end smartphone of the new generation.
Qualcomm company use other principles . Developer seeks to improve the performance of individual cores, not blindly increase their numbers.