Hardware
Samsung introduces 960GB SSD for servers
Samsung has announced that they’re now supplying their new SSD – SM843T for use in enterprise servers and data centers. The SM83T offers a whopping 960GB of storage space and supports SATA 6.0 interface. Samsung says the SM43T can help companies see a performance gain of 6 times while saving electricity by up to 30 [...]
Samsung develops 20-nm 4Gb LPDDR3 DRAM for Mobile Devices
Samsung has announced that they’ve started production of the high-speed low power DDR3 (LPDDR3) RAM for mobile devices. Samsung says the new 4Gb (gigabit) LPDDR3 mobile DRAM is based on 20-nm process and achieves performance levels comparable to RAM found on computers. The 4Gb RAM can transmit data up to 2,133 megabits per second (Mbps) [...]
Samsung may go with SK Hynix for mobile DRAM
Samsung who until now used in-house produced DRAM for its mobile devices has hinted to purchase chips from SK Hynix. JK Shin said to Reuters that they’re considering to purchase mobile DRAM from SK Hynix and could also use it in the flagship Galaxy S series. Speculation is that Samsung could be purchasing components to [...]
Samsung starts mass producing 128Gb 3-bit MLC NAND Flash memory
Samsung has announced that they’ve initiated mass production of128Gb (gigabit) 3-bit MLC NAND flash memory using 10nm process technology. Samsung says this chip offers the highest density in the industry along with performance of 400Mbps based on toggle DDR 2.0 interface. Samsung will integrate the chip in embedded NAND storage and SSDs and will expand [...]
Exynos 5 Octa will support 20 LTE bands
We know Samsung Galaxy S4 supports LTE but there seemed to be some confusion regarding LTE support on Samsung’s own Exynos 5 Octa chip. The official Exynos Twitter account got back to us yesterday confirming that Exynos 5410 will indeed support LTE on 20 bands. However, they refrained to divulge any more details regarding the [...]
Majority of Galaxy S4s from initial batch will be powered by Snapdragon 600 CPU
Samsung during the Galaxy S4 announcement confirmed that the phone will be released in two variants – one powered by its own Exynos 5410 octa-core processor and another with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 600. Now according to Korean site ETNews, up to 70 percent of the Galaxy S4’s 10m production batch will be powered by Qualcomm’s chip [...]
Exynos 5 Octa will have PowerVR SGX544 GPU
Samsung unveiled the Exynos 5 Octa at the CES in January but has been playing coy on revealing intrinsic details. Today, Imagination Technologies confirmed that their PowerVR SGX IP will power Samsung octa-core SoC’s GPU. The Exynos 5410 will incorporate PowerVR SGX544MP core and according to AnandTech Samsung is using three cores running at 533MHz. [...]
Qualcomm CEO calls Exynos 5 Octa a publicity stunt
Samsung’s announcement of the eight-core Exynos 5 Octa SoC might have impressed many but Qualcomm’s CEO Paul Jacobs is certainly unexcited. At an event in China, the CEO claimed Exynos 5 Octa’s use of eight cores is nothing more than a publicity stunt and though it is good from a marketing standpoint, many cores make [...]
Samsung shows the display future with YOUM Flexible Displays
Samsung has been showing flexible display prototypes for few years now but none of them comes close to today’s showcase during Dr. Stephen Woo’s keynote. Under its YOUM brand, Samsung showed off flexible displays running a game, Windows Phone 8 OS and few use cases that could be possible with flexible displays. Samsung was rumoured [...]
Samsung announces Exynos 5 Octa for mobile devices
Samsung’s Dr. Stephen Woo took the centre stage today and unveiled the next-generation processor for mobile devices. It’s the Exynos 5 Octa, an 8-core processor targeted at high-end mobile phones and tablets. The processor is equipped with four Cortex-A7 cores and four Cortex-A15 cores and takes advantage of ARM’s big.LITTLE technology that uses the Cortex-A15 [...]