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

[lkcl luke]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:42 AM, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Vladimir Pantelic <vladoman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.....
>
>  ahh must be the wrong one i'm thinking of .... 1sec....

http://www.ti.com/product/am3894  hm - i swear i saw something like
this for $95 not $38.  ok, so maybe they managed to get reasonable
yields on these 1000+ pin BGA packages after all.

l.