Samsung Galaxy S4 Exynos 5 Octa CPU to Run at 1.8GHz in South Korea

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has already been confirmed to plan on launching the Galaxy S4 smartphone in its homeland market with an 8-core Exynos 5 Octa processor inside, and it seems that it also plans on clocking it in at 1.8GHz. The smartphone was spotted at the FCC as Samsung SHV-E300S/K, and was listed there with a CPU running at 1.8GHz, which would make it 200MHz faster when compared to the global Exynos-based Galaxy S4 (GT-I9500). Furthermore, it appears that the device was also confirmed to arrive on shelves in South Korea with multi-band LTE (Band 3, 5, 1, 7, 17) capabilities, SamMobile notes. No specific info on when Galaxy S4 will land on shelves in the country has been provided as of now, but...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Plus Leaks in Live Pictures

The latest tablet launched by Samsung, the Galaxy Note 8.0 has yet to hit shelves, but the South Korean company is already readying another tablet, the Galaxy Tab 3 Plus. The folks over at SamMobile have just been tipped on the upcoming release of the tablet, which is expected to be renamed Samsung Galaxy S Tab, given the success of the company’s Galaxy S lineup. The tablet shown in the pictures strongly resembles the Galaxy Note 8.0, which is about to make its debut on the market, so we can’t say if this is indeed the Galaxy Tab 3 Plus or not. Anyway, the tablet is said to ship with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean operating system out of the box and the powerful Samsung Exynos 5410 Octa chipset featuring two quad-core processors. Samsung...

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First ARM Cortex-A57 64-Bit Processor Taped Out

The ARMv8 architecture was what opened the door for ARM Holdings on the computer industry, as it adds support for 64-bit instructions, a must on modern PCs. Now, though, we get to see the first optimizations. ARM Holdings is collaborating with TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), which happens to be the world's largest foundry. ARM provided the Artisan physical IP, while TSMC implemented its memory macros. Everything was combined with RDA technologies enabled by the TSMC Open Innovation Platform design ecosystem. Neither company said when the Cortex-A57 processor would be seen in devices, and this information probably won't be released for a while. They did confirm, or at least ARM did, that the chip was taped out,...

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