Samsung recently brought the true octa-core performance to its Exynos chips. The Exynos 5 Octa big.LITTLE chip, which is currently powering the Galaxy S4 and Note 3, was also expected to gain the ability to run all of its cores simultaneously via an update. However, Samsung's senior technical expert, Oleg Artamonov has confirmed that both flagship devices will not get the true octa-core...
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