Arachnotronic
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I'm just saying that I have yet to hear anything actually going against those high performance claims.
Fair enough. I just have to be skeptical that Samsung is going to hit such a home run with their very first CPU core. Basically it would seem that the claim is that Samsung will put out something that outclasses the ARM A72 (ARM has been doing this for a long time), which is a bit difficult to believe for a first effort.
I have a lot less faith in the mobile division making sensible decisions. The 7420 situation came to be because the S810 was worse by a considerable margin and it wouldn't have been acceptable to use both because one model variant would have been clearly much better. It all depends if the S820 efficiency ends up within reach of the 8890.
Why was this a surprise to Samsung? One chip had the advantage of being implemented in a 14nm finFET process while the other was on a much less efficient 20nm process.