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Exynos
Family of ARM based system-on-a-chips made by Samsung / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Samsung Exynos,[1] formerly Hummingbird (Korean: 엑시노스), is a series of ARM-based system-on-chips developed by Samsung Electronics' System LSI division and manufactured by Samsung Foundry. It is a continuation of Samsung's earlier S3C, S5L and S5P line of SoCs.
This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points. (December 2014) |
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Exynos is mostly based on the ARM Cortex cores with the exception of some high end SoCs which featured Samsung's proprietary "M" series core design; though from 2021 onwards even the flagship high-end SoC's will be featuring ARM Cortex cores.[2]