Samsung’s Exynos 5 Dual Application Processor Drives Industry’s Highest Resolution on Google’s Nexus 10 Tablet

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SEOUL, Korea – November 12, 2012 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a

global leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, announced that its
Exynos 5 Dual application processor powers the new Nexus 10 tablet
from Google, with the highest WQXGA (2560×1600) resolution in the
market. The Exynos 5 Dual is the world’s first application processor
based on the ARM® Cortex-A15 CPU, which has been designed with both
performance and power efficiency in mind to bring superb user
experience in mobile devices.

„We are very pleased to reveal that Samsung’s most advanced mobile
application processor, the Exynos 5 Dual, is the engine that powers
Google’s Nexus 10 tablet,“ said TH Kim, vice president of System LSI
marketing, Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics. „Exynos 5 Dual is
our first application processor designed specifically for high-end
tablets and mobile computing applications. With ARM’s newest Cortex
A15 core and Samsung’s low-power 32nm High-K Metal Gate (HKMG)
process, customers can expect incredible performance with astounding
energy efficiency.“

The Exynos 5 Dual, with two ARM® Cortex-A15 CPUs running at a blazing
1.7GHz, accompanied by four powerful Mali-T604 GPU cores, full high
definition multimedia capabilities, built-in ISP for camera/image
processing, and the widest memory bandwidth available in mobile SoCs
at 12.8 GB/s, is the only solution currently in the market to support
the richest media and computing experience in stunning WQXGA
resolution within the mobile environment.