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  Samsung has just unveiled a new System-on-chip (SoC) for future mobile devices. It’s the Exynos 5250 that boasts two Cortex-A15 chips clocked at 2GHz. The dual-core Exynos 5250 is created using a 32nm-low power HKMG process and is said to double the performance when compared to a 1.5GHz dual-core SoC based on Cortex-A9. In [...]

  Looks like the first details on Samsung’s Exynos Quad-core System-on-Chip (SoC) have trickled out. Traces of an upcoming Exynos 4412 supporting quad-core have been found on the Kernel Git page. Samsung is apparently testing the chip and has added support for the SoC on the development boards. According to it, Exynos 4412 is very [...]

  Samsung has created a new Near Field Communication (NFC) chip that tries to make contactless mobile payments more secure. The Secu-NFC chip SENHRN1 is integrated with an NFC controller and a secure element that stores all the sensitive information along with security keys and encryption. The secure element we’re talking about is a 760KB [...]

  Looks like Samsung wants to have the best of both worlds. If you recall, Samsung’s in-house developed Hummingbird used a PowerVR GPU and the recent Exynos 4210 uses ARM’s Mali-400. Now Imagination Technologies, makers of PowerVR has announced that the Korean giant has signed a deal with the company to license PowerVR SGX MP’s [...]

  UPDATE: Samsung has released some more details regarding the purchase. Norton Ghost and the Batman will be bundled to consumers purchasing a 128GB SSD or higher. We’ve heard Samsung bundling a Norton Ghost copy with their SSD but Samsung USA is taking a unique approach by bundling a copy of a game. Users purchasing [...]

  After launching the 470 Series SSDs in South Korea, Samsung is treating its home market with a better, faster SSD. Samsung has announced the 830 Series SSD for South Korea which is said to be 2.5 times faster than the predecessor. Clad in a brushed metal shell, the 830 Series SSD supports 6Gb/s SATA [...]

  Samsung has announced a 64GB embedded memory (eMMC) meant for smartphones and tablets. The new 64GB eMMC touts industry’s highest performance that uses 20nm-based 64Gb NAND with Toggle DDR 2.0 interface and is really thin to make it suitable for slim mobile devices. The eMMC can store up to 16,000 MP3 files and has [...]

  Samsung put on a good show at the Samsung Mobile Solutions Forum in Taiwan. In addition to unveiling the new Exynos processor, Samsung also showed a 1/2.3-inch 16 megapixel CMOS image sensor (S5K2P1) for smartphones, digital cameras and camcorders and 1/8.2-inch 1.2MP sensor (S5K8AA). The S5K2P1 uses Samsung’s 1.34um Backside Illumination pixel technology that [...]

  Samsung has confirmed that they’ve developed a new Exynos System-on-Chip (SoC) using the 32nm High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) low-power process. The Exynos 4212 is a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 that is clocked at a speed of 1.5GHz. The new chip that will be used in smartphones and tablets is 30 percent more power efficient, thanks [...]

  In an industry where memory chip manufacturers are cutting down on production and expansion due to the reduction in demand, Samsung is doing quite the opposite. Samsung has announced to start operations of its 16th production line, which is touted to be the world’s largest memory chip production line. Samsung had started construction of [...]