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 […]
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Samsung planning to sell Liquavista to Amazon
Samsung bought the Dutch-based display company Liquavista couple of years back for its Electrowetting display (EWD). Now Bloomberg reports that Samsung is in talks to sell the company because the acquisition didn’t meet its “expectations”. Another reason could be Samsung’s reliance on OLED as the superior display technology. Samsung is reportedly in talks with Amazon […]
Samsung Exynos 5 Octa to go into Mass Production in Q2 2013
This shouldn’t be a surprise since Samsung’s Galaxy S4 will be fitted with this chip but if you needed any official confirmation, Samsung has announced that its Exynos 5 Octa SoC will go into mass production from Q2, which could be as early as next month. Announced at CES earlier this year, Exynos 5 Octa […]
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. […]
5-inch Full HD AMOLED Panel mass production to start later this month?
Samsung gave a brief glimpse of a 5-inch full HD AMOLED display last month at the CES and now it seems the display panel will soon go into mass production. According to DDaily’s sources, Samsung Display will mass produce the next-generation display from end of this month with panels reaching Samsung Electronics from early March. […]