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 […]
Hardware
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. […]