Samsung Electronics has launched the Exynos 5250, a 2GHz, low-power, dual-core processor based on the ARM Cortex-A15 core and is intended for use in tablets. The processor utilises 32nm high-k metal gate low-power process technology. It can deliver full HD multimedia capabilities and process 14billion instructions/s at 2GHz. It is designed to drive up to a 2560x1600pixel, wide quad extended graphics array display. The processor has an embedded DisplayPort interface that complies with the panel self-refresh technology applied to the timing controller (T-CON). The technology is said to refresh static images directly from the frame buffer memory incorporated in the T-CON. The processor has a memory bandwidth of 12.8Gbyte/s. It offers a host of peripheral functions including an embedded image signal processor enabling 8Mpixel resolution images at 30fps, a full HD 60fps video hardware codec engine for 1080pixel video recording and playback, and an HDMI 1.4 interface for sharp and crisp multimedia content transmission. It also has embedded booting device interfaces such as SATA, UART, USB and external ports such as USB3.0, electronic multimedia card 4.5 and embedded SD3.0. The 3D graphics processing capabilities and a stereoscopic 3D feature of the processor make it suitable for use in 3D gaming, user-interfacing and video playback applications.
