Samsung announce 1GHz ARM CORTEX-A8 Hummingbird CPU

27 July, 2009
Samsung and Intrinsity jointly announced the fastest ARM Cortex-A8 processor architecture. Using 45 nm low-power, low-leakage process technology the processor codenamed Hummingbird...

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  • Anonymous
  • P%n
  • 27 Jul 2009

Samsung and Apple collaborate on the design of the chips that Apple want, a bigger breakthrough will be Arm 9 multicore processors.

The iPhone uses a processor capable of 833MHz, underclocked to 600MHz.

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    • David, Sweden
    • M8T
    • 27 Jul 2009

    2000DMIPS at 1GHz?! Freakin hell!! I don't believe it til i see it. Samsung already makes the processors for Apple products including the iPhone, but somehow they don't sell Apple their best processors by far. If this one is true, then Samsung just stepped into the future big time. With 2000DMIPS at 1GHz the limitation on a mobile device is endless, so start throwing away your laptops and HD video cameras. If Samsung puts this beast in a phone then they can make the first trult all-in-one device, proper HD camera, games, extreme high quality audio processing etc.

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      • Athar Walile
      • upe
      • 27 Jul 2009

      I am Sure that this chip is going to take mobile technology to the new hight.
      My Science teacher said that "if One is able to store a very large amount of power is very small cell is a bigger invention"

      Keep doing good work SAMSUNG.

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        • Wesley
        • 32Q
        • 27 Jul 2009

        Anonymous, 27 Jul 2009Just one word 4 u Guys!!! INTEL!!!Intel sux. Maybe if their Moorestown chip lives up to its hype it could be good, but I'm still skeptical.

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          • Anonymous
          • kbe
          • 27 Jul 2009

          Just one word 4 u Guys!!!
          INTEL!!!

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            • BRYNN
            • nGR
            • 27 Jul 2009

            Its the fact that it operates at 1 volt and is using the new 45 nM technology thats the point,,1ghz proccessors been round for years..The trouble using this new 45nM tech is leakage in the transistors because the dialectric is so thin but newer materials like "hafniun k "are solving this partially ..

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              • Anonymous
              • pTK
              • 27 Jul 2009

              Anonymous, 27 Jul 2009ummm lol do you know the iphone processor is made by Samsun... moreWell said.

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                • Anonymous
                • nvx
                • 27 Jul 2009

                z, 27 Jul 2009by the time this cpu reach market, iphone already release t... moreummm lol do you know the iphone processor is made by Samsung ? the iphone has ARM series @ 600mhz. apple is not a semi conductor they don't make chips. hope you know that before you spew BS from your mouth

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                  • Anonymous
                  • nWK
                  • 27 Jul 2009

                  Yeah Samsung rulez, hope they bring up Omnia 3 with this soon. But till then i´ll be happy with Omnia2.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • pTK
                    • 27 Jul 2009

                    z, 27 Jul 2009by the time this cpu reach market, iphone already release t... moreThe iPhone processor is made by Samsung!

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                      • Anonymous
                      • pTK
                      • 27 Jul 2009

                      Samsung is getting better and better :)

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                        • Anonymous
                        • EqV
                        • 27 Jul 2009

                        z, 27 Jul 2009by the time this cpu reach market, iphone already release t... morejust dont.

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                          • 0ds
                          • 27 Jul 2009

                          by the time this cpu reach market, iphone already release their 2.0GHz cpu.......

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                            • himynameissam
                            • 3H6
                            • 27 Jul 2009

                            Tucks, 27 Jul 2009old news... snapdragon have by beaten them by about three m... morewhat so just because snapdragon made one first, no one else can ever make one?

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                              • Tucks
                              • M3s
                              • 27 Jul 2009

                              old news... snapdragon have by beaten them by about three months... i think? Why should samsung take the credit for an already invented technology,

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                                • Anonymous
                                • nWK
                                • 27 Jul 2009

                                Hard times for Qualcomm, not only because they make crappy SoCs, South Korean fair trade regulator slaps Qualcomm with record $208 million fine, due to abusing its market dominance in CDMA mobile phone chips by charging higher royalties for companies that used rival chipsets. It also said that Qualcomm favored customers (HTC) who used its products by offering rebates. EU will follow.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • syj
                                  • 27 Jul 2009

                                  great work samsung.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • iBt
                                    • 27 Jul 2009

                                    run.... and fly

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                                      • overloaded
                                      • PHk
                                      • 27 Jul 2009

                                      fantastic! :D

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • pqy
                                        • 27 Jul 2009

                                        oooo...samsung innovation again. it,s not enaugh that nokia mobiles use samsung lcd and camera,now they will use a samsung "heart"