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

[Vladimir Pantelic]

lkcl luke wrote:
> 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.

it's again 0.65mm ball pitch, that's huge these days compared to
0.4mm on the mobile chips...