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 […]
Hardware
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 […]
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 […]