While Samsung surprised us all by announcing the 8 cores Exynos Octa 5 processor, Chinese giant Huawei doesn’t want to be left behind in the race of SoCs and has announced that the company will launch its own 8 core processor later this year.
Huawei’s Richard Yu, while speaking to Engadget revealed that the 8 core processor will be based on the Cortex A15 like the Exynos Octa 5.
The thing we do not know currently is, if Huawei will follow the same architecture of four cores of Cortex A7 and four cores of Cortex A15 which Samsung has adopted or does the company have some different plans. The SoC could be the HiSilicon K3V3 or some other which could be manufactured by TSMC.
Along with this, Yu also teased that at the upcoming Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013 which is scheduled for next month, Huawei will unveil will unveil a super-thin smartphone which will be a follow up to the Android running P-Series. The executive confirmed that the smartphone will be thinner than the recently launched Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra which measures just 6.45mm. The super-thin Huawei P-Series smartphone is said to arrive with a metallic body.
At CES 2013, Huawei went on to launch the Android OS running Ascend Mate, Ascend D2 and the Windows Phone 8 OS running Ascend W1.It will be interesting to see as to what else does Huawei have in store for us at the MWC.