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

7 September, 2010
Samsung 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...

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    • Anonymous
    • 4tk
    • 23 Sep 2010


    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.com/forum/index.php?/topic/94-looking- into-samsung-orion-samsungs-implementation-of-arm-cortex-a9/

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      • Anonymous
      • sGW
      • 16 Sep 2010

      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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        • Anonymous
        • Lax
        • 12 Sep 2010

        Anonymous, 09 Sep 2010apple new ipod touch is out! Move aside all you cheap imita... morego 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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          • Anonymous
          • ftV
          • 10 Sep 2010

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

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            • Anonymous
            • I4x
            • 09 Sep 2010

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

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              • Anonymous
              • 4U@
              • 09 Sep 2010

              put these in production immediately please

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                • qGw
                • 09 Sep 2010

                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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                  • ATOK
                  • LyF
                  • 09 Sep 2010

                  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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                    • irvinehooi
                    • iba
                    • 09 Sep 2010

                    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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                      • sameer gaikwad
                      • 0C3
                      • 08 Sep 2010

                      DeJust, 08 Sep 2010I really like what Samsung and LG are doing, along with Sha... moreSmart observation dude.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • Tqc
                        • 08 Sep 2010

                        SHAHDAB KHAN, 08 Sep 2010i don't think any thing better then nokia the best and user... moreYes, 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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                          • SHAHDAB KHAN
                          • 2Z1
                          • 08 Sep 2010

                          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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                            • 9xm
                            • 08 Sep 2010

                            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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                              • Anonymous
                              • Lqd
                              • 08 Sep 2010

                              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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                                • Anonymous
                                • Tqj
                                • 08 Sep 2010

                                Dual core cpus, 07 Sep 2010Only fools think multicore CPUs are good. It's like trying ... morewierd how every pc including netbooks are getting multicore cpu's, so what you say has no substance..

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                                  • jomar marcelo
                                  • t7B
                                  • 08 Sep 2010

                                  battery life may be one of the concern

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                                    • Hello!!!
                                    • SqI
                                    • 08 Sep 2010

                                    tim, 08 Sep 2010umm.. galaxy s last 4 hours in heavy usage. With such a mon... moreIt lasts more than 4 hours I guarantee you

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                                      • DeJust
                                      • fjZ
                                      • 08 Sep 2010

                                      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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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • sya
                                        • 08 Sep 2010

                                        Lhon0901, 08 Sep 2010This is a good development and all, considering dual-core C... morethey 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.