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Samsung Formally Launches Exynos 5 Octa 8-Core Processor

NVIDIA has Tegra 4, Qualcom has Snapdragon 800 and, now, Samsung has officially introduced the Exynos 5 octa mobile processing platform for tablets and other high-end mobile devices. 8-core builds seem to be turning into a sort of niche market right now. While NVIDIA and Qualcomm are taking things slow, Advanced Mi...

15 March 2013
03:59 GMT

MWC 2013: Samsung Launches Exynos 5 Octa, 8-Core Reference Tablet Platform

The thing about the ARM architecture is that it is very energy-efficient, so efficient that chips based on it use a fraction of the energy needed by x86. Samsung has now shown how much farther the concept of efficiency can be pushed. Since Samsung is its own developer and manufacturer of chips, it has full control...

25 February 2013
08:06 GMT

Samsung Starts Deploying Security Fix for Galaxy S III Users in the UK

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has reportedly started to push out a security update for the owners of Galaxy S III devices in the UK. Based on Android 4.1.2, the update is available as build JZO54K and is meant to resolve the security issue previously found to affect Samsung’s Exynos 4210 and 4412 po...

4 January 2013
01:53 GMT

Samsung Confirms Exploit in Galaxy Devices, Will Fix It Soon

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has officially confirmed the presence of a security issue with some of its Galaxy devices, and has also announced that it was working on a fix for it. The security issue was found to affect devices powered by Exynos 4210 and 4412 processors, which includes Sprint&...

19 December 2012
15:21 GMT

Google Nexus 10 Tablet Officially Launched with 2560 x 1600 Display

It turns out that we spoke too soon when we said, yesterday (October 29, 2012), that Google would not be selling the Samsung-manufactured Nexus 10 tablet as planned. Although Hurricane Sandy really did force the company to cancel its launch event, Google decided to just make the announcement on the Internet and be ...

30 October 2012
05:33 GMT

Samsung Preparing ARM Cortex A15 64-Bit Server Processors

We’ve talked already about Calxeda’s interesting server SoC that uses Cortex A9 cores and provides over ten times the efficiency of a Xeon server in certain tasks. ARM’s Cortex A15 architecture brings impressive IPC improvements over the A9 and Samsung is using the newer architecture for its futur...

10 August 2012
08:21 GMT

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1 Quad-Core Tablet Already Shipping Ahead of Launch

Well-known electronics giant, Korean company Samsung is apparently very close to making the official launch announcement for the new Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet. The strange surprise is the fact that some US-based retailers already have the new toys in stock and detailed pictures have surfaced on the net. The new tablet...

3 August 2012
10:11 GMT

DigiTimes: iPhone 5 Based on Quad-Core Exynos 4 CPU

A report coming from one particularly spotty Taiwanese source says Apple is gearing up to release its sixth-generation iPhone based on Samsung’s Exynos 4 quad-core architecture.The Cupertino giant, however, has secured numerous IPs in the ARM department in the past few years, allowing it to design and optimize ...

6 July 2012
03:54 GMT

Samsung GALAXY S III Headed to Mobilicity

Samsung has confirmed Mobilicity is among the Canadian carriers that will offer the Galaxy S III this summer. Although the South Korean company has yet to announce the complete schedule for the Galaxy S III launch in Canada, rumor has it that the device might arrive as early as June. Europeans will be able to purcha...

10 May 2012
16:01 GMT

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1” to Feature a Higher Clocked Quad Core CPU

It seems that Korean giant Samsung was not quite satisfied with the performance of Android Ice Cream Sandwich on the big screen 10.1” Galaxy Note tablet when using a dual-core Cortex A9 ARM processor. So they reportedly decided to wait until the quad-core ARM CPU becomes available. Samsung’s Exyn...

9 May 2012
08:57 GMT

Quad-Core Exynos CPU Used in Galaxy Note 10.1, Not Dual-Core

Samsung's Galaxy Note, by the name alone, could be mistaken for a sort of electronic notepad or e-reader if it didn't have the “10.1” in its name and, of course, that quad-core Exynos CPU. But that's just the thing: the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 was expected to have a dual-core processor a...

9 May 2012
08:17 GMT

Samsung Proudly Shows Its 32 nm Manufacturing Process

Korean company Samsung has started mass production of Apple’s A5 ARM processor that powers the company’s popular iPAD 2 tablet. The move will have a serious impact on Apple's per-chip cost, but, more importantly, it proves once again how important it is to have a contract with a modern foundry using ...

4 May 2012
08:21 GMT

Samsung Reports 2 Million Galaxy Note Units Sold in South Korea

Samsung has already been confirmed as the world’s most important handset maker as the South Korean company has dethroned Nokia as top mobile phone vendor. With only one day left until Samsung unveils its next Android flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III, the handset manufacturer reports record sales of Galaxy...

2 May 2012
19:01 GMT

Samsung Galaxy S III Shows Up in Vietnam (Video)

Although Samsung is strictly safeguarding the Galaxy S III’s design, most of its specs are not a secret anymore. Leaks and rumors from sources in the industry that already tested the device offered us a pretty good idea on Galaxy S III’s specs sheet. We already know that Samsung is trying to conceal the ...

20 April 2012
05:09 GMT

Galaxy S III Almost Confirmed with Quad-Core, Impressive Performance

In two weeks’ time, the next flagship Android device from Samsung could make an official appearance under the name of Galaxy S III. The South Korean mobile phone maker has set up a press event on May 3rd, and with this occasion the successor of Galaxy S II is expected to make an official appearance. Unfort...

19 April 2012
03:35 GMT

Samsung Galaxy Tab 11.6 Pictured. Maybe

There have been murmurs about a new tablet for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 11.6 series, murmurs that picked up in volume not too long ago. Granted, it still isn't known if the alleged Galaxy Tab 11.6 will ever actually become reality. Still, people are watchful of what they consider important, and this applies he...

26 March 2012
10:07 GMT

This May Be Samsung's Windows 8 Tablet SoC, Exynos 5450

According to PhoneArena, Samsung is preparing more than the still unannounced Exynos 5250 System-on-Chip. In fact, the company is building something called the Exynos 5450, a quad-core platform operating at 2GHz (the cores themselves are Cortex-A15). The report also mentions the Mali-658 as the graphics processing ...

1 February 2012
11:29 GMT

Samsung Galaxy Note Arrives in Vietnam and Malaysia on November 11

It looks like India won't be the only Asian country that launched the Samsung Galaxy Note, as the Korean handset maker has just announced the upcoming availability of the smartphone in Vietnam and Malaysia.According to Samsung, the Galaxy Note will go live in both countries on November 11, followed by other coun...

8 November 2011
08:50 GMT

Hard Kernel Uses Samsung Exynos Chip in 10-Inch Tablet

It seems that the tablet market has become appealing enough that more and more companies, in this case Hard Kernel, are taking their chances against the likes of Acer, Samsung, Apple and all other big players. Even though there was much skepticism at the start of 2010, the Apple iPad, and then other tablets, sold s...

8 March 2011
05:45 GMT

Samsung Announces New Application Processor Brand

When it comes to any sort of device, the marketing efforts play a pivotal role, and Samsung decided to do something about its own tactics when it comes to application processors, hence the latest press release on its part.Smasung is a well known maker of many sorts of semiconductors, application processors being jus...

11 February 2011
06:08 GMT


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