Samsung has announced that they’ve started producing 3GB LPDDR3 mobile DRAM for smartphones. This is industry’s first 3GB DRAM for mobile devices and could be a part of the upcoming Galaxy flagship device (Galaxy Note III?). Samsung uses six 20nm class 4Gb LPDDR3 chips with the single package measuring only 0.8mm high, freeing up space […]
Hardware
Samsung announces new Exynos 5 Octa (5420) with faster CPU, new GPU
Samsung teased a new Exynos 5 Octa processor last week and today they have officially announced the evolved Exynos 5 Octa. The new Exynos 5420 now boasts quad-core Cortex-A15 chips clocked at 1.8GHz and Cortex-A7 at 1.3GHz, representing a performance boost of 20 percent from the previous Exynos 5 Octa chip that used A15 at […]
Samsung confirms ‘evolved’ Exynos 5 Octa coming next week
Samsung Exynos’ official twitter account has confirmed a new SoC announcement for next week. While the image that is accompanied with the tweet does not say much, we do know that a “more powerful” and “enhanced” Exynos 5 Octa will be announced. The new Exynos 5 Octa, which is to be believed to be Exynos […]
Samsung announces XS1715 enterprise SSD with 1.6TB storage
As promised last month, Samsung has expanded its enterprise SSD range with industry’s first 2.5-inch NVMe (NVM Express) PCIe based SSD – XS1715. The drive has a storage space of up to 1.6TB and offers a sequential read speed of up to 3000MB/s, which Samsung says can process 500GB of data in under three minutes. […]
Samsung unveils 840 EVO SSD with 1TB storage
Samsung at the SSD Global Summit in South Korea today announced their new SSD dubbed as 840 EVO. The 840 EVO SSD uses 10nm-class 128Gb NAND and boasts a storage of up to 1TB. Samsung says the drive uses their proprietary controller and a Turbo Write drive that gives faster read/write speeds. The 120GB 840 […]