Samsung is easily the largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world by volume, and making chips to satisfy Samsung's demands could easily be the sole focus of a chip-maker. Likewise, dependency plays a part too: if there's problems at Qualcomm, Samsung can step in and equip a market with Exynos chips. likewise Exynos is proccessed by samsung with their octa cores and making the huge market after the snapdragon and Mediatek processors. The obvious difference is the number of cores: the Exynos is an octa-core chip and the Snapdragon is a quad-core chip. So while the Exynos cores are clocked at lower speeds than the Snapdragon cores, there's more of them. ARM's big.LITTLE architecture in the Exynos chips also allows the four ''smaller'' cores to handle lighter tasks and the four ''bigger'' cores heavier tasks as well as individual cores, courtesy of Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP). HMP means that as few as one ''small...