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

[Alejandro Mery]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:51, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:35, 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.....
>>
>> btw, have you tried to get David Anders (prpplague on freenode/#edev)
>> from TI to get involved on EOMA?
>
>  no - do you know him?  if so could you reach out to him for me?  i've
> seen the name prpplague around somewhere, it rings a bell.

this is him:
http://free-electrons.com/pub/video/2011/elce/elce-2011-anders-board-bringup-lcd-display-450p.webm

I don't know the person, only his irc alter-ego :)   but I'll ask him today