At the ITU Telecom World conference in Geneva, Samsung confirmed to extend its support for the next-gen Mobile WiMAX Release 2 based on IEEE 802.16m. According to Samsung, IEEE 802.16m provides four times faster data speed and improved spectral efficiency as compared to the Mobile WiMAX Release 1 based on IEEE 802.16e standard. Furthermore, […]
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Samsung brings world’s first Mobile Display Driver IC with touchscreen function
At the forum held in Taiwan, Samsung also unveiled the world’s first chip to embed a capacitive touchscreen control function with mobile display driver IC (DDI). With the integration of capacitive touchscreen function along with the DDI technology, manufacturers can give users the advantages of capacitive, lower power consumption that will effectively increase the […]
Samsung’s Front-end receiver SoC with China mobile broadcasting standard
Samsung announced the industry’s first 65nm-based SoC with channel decoder RF. The chip is specifically targeted at the Chinese market that will enable Chinese users to watch live TV, sports and weather forecasts right in their mobile devices. The S3C4F71 SoC features a zero-IF CMOS RF tuner, UHF, S-Band frequency range and China’s multimedia […]
5MP SoC Image Sensor to evolve mobile photography
Samsung also announced a 5 megapixel System-on-Chip (SoC) image sensor at the Samsung Mobile Solutions Forum in Taiwan. The S5K4EA SoC has been created to bring the digital camera equivalent performance to high-end mobile phones. The SoC packs a CMOS Image Sensor and an image signal processor in a 1.4-micron (um) size. Its rich […]
Samsung shows 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 based Application Processor
Samsung showed off number of technologies at the 6th Samsung Mobile Solutions Forum in Taiwan and one of the interesting tech was the development of a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 based Application Processor (AP). The S5PC110 AP targeted at small form-factor devices and S5PV210 AP targeted at portable devices like netbooks are based on 45nm […]