Samsung Announces Exynos 1080 -- 5nm Premium-Range SoC with A78 Cores (anandtech.com) 15
Samsung LSI today announced the new Exynos 1080 SoC (system on chip), a successor to last year's Exynos 980. This year's 1080 is seemingly positioned a little above the 980 in terms of performance as we're seeing some quite notable gains in features compared to the 980. From a report: It's to be remembered that this is a "premium" SoC, meaning it's not a flagship SoC, but it's also not quite a mid-range SoC, fitting itself in-between those two categories, a niche which has become quite popular over the last 1-2 years. The new SoC is defined by having a new 1+3+4 CPU configuration, as reasonably large GPU, and full 5G connectivity integrated, and is the first publicly announced SoC to be manufactured on Samsung's new 5LPE process node. On the CPU side of things, this is the first time we've seen Samsung adopt a 1+3+4 CPU configuration, now adopting the Cortex-A78 architecture on the part of the performance cores. One core is clocked at 2.8GHz while the three others are running at 2.6GHz. Qualcomm had first introduced such a setup and it seems it's become quite popular as it gives the benefit of both performance and power efficiency. The four big cores are accompanied by four Cortex-A55 cores at 2.0GHz.
Not a good time to announce this, boys! (Score:1)
All the news are still talking about Apple's M1. You should have waited until next week.
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Like anybody who cares about M1 would pay attention to Xynos, and vice versa. Don't know about you, but I don't even look at Apple's garbage any more. They can announce all they want. Too much useful stuff out there to pay attention to the Apple scam.
SoC? Slashdot staff, please communicate carefully (Score:2)
It would have been better if that was explained in the Slashdot story. Not everyone knowledgeable about technology is aware of every kind of technology.
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I'm pretty sure that in this context, SoC means "Slashdot on a Computer".
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You are supposed to know already that SoC is "System on a chip".
Other things that you are supposed to know include that CPU is "Central Processing Unit", GPU is "Graphics Processing Unit", and "5G" is a wireless communications technology.
Oh why oh why have the editors failed us so....
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Other things that you are supposed to know include that CPU is "Central Processing Unit", GPU is "Graphics Processing Unit", and "5G" is a wireless communications technology.
And that "hard drive" is that big box under your desk.
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You mean the thing with the built-in cup holder?
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There is only one reply to your post: OMGWTFBBQ.
If you think that is not applicable, see "Acronym Bingo".
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I often see acronyms I do not know, it all depends on which field(s) your job(s) and/or interest(s) are.
But as others have already said, SoC should be familiar by now since it has been mentioned quite a number of times in the last decade because of system integration. From microcontrollers, smartphones and tablets and now to computers, SoCs are basically everywhere.
On the other hand, editors are supposed to expand acronyms on its first use in a text, so you are still right in your request for clarity.
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As a member of the security team guarding the world's largest cloud operator a SOC is 'Security Operations Center'. For me any other usage for that particular acronym needs an explanation on first usage. I would expect an article about my job to clarify its usage for non-security professionals as well. The same with using SOC in an article about healthcare, where it means 'System/Standard Of Care', or the military where it means 'Special Operations Command', or logistics where it's 'Shipper Owned Contain
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Suggest you learn the concept of a search engine before whining about your ignorance.