[Arm-netbook] Samsung's 2GHz Exynos 5250 is first SoC with super fast dual-core Cortex-A15 processor

Vladimir Pantelic vladoman at gmail.com
Mon Jan 23 10:35:38 GMT 2012


lkcl luke wrote:
> http://www.anandtech.com/show/5169/samsung-exynos-5250-announced-cortexa15-2ghz-dualcore
>
> ouch, ouch.  look at the pads on that picture.  i counted the number
> of pins on the BGA: 32 on a side.  that's 1024 pins.  the yields on
> that will be um... not very good.  TI's 1024-pin monsters - some of
> the top-of-the-range DM37xx series - are almost $100.  whilst TI is

the DM37xx have neither 1000 pins, nor do they cost $100, otherwise one
could not make a $149 Beagleboard using them.....



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