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) […]
Hardware
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 […]