Samsung reveals processor for Galaxy S III

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Samsung Electronics has introduced the 1.4GHz Exynos 4 Quad processor, which will power the next Galaxy smartphone, the company said on Thursday.

It is scheduled to launch its next flagship smartphone, which is expected to be called Galaxy S III, on May 3 in London.

Samsung still hasn't confirmed the name of the phone. But said that the ARM Cortex A9-based Exynos 4 Quad is already in production and is scheduled to be designed first into Samsung's next Galaxy smartphone that will officially be announced in May.

The processor is particularly well-suited for heavy-load applications such as 3D games, video editing, and calculation-intensive simulation, according to Samsung. In addition, it has a video hardware codec engine for 1080p video recording and play-back, it said.

But Samsung also had battery consumption in mind when designing the processor. Due to its low-power process and power-saving design, the Exynos 4 Quad "has two times the processing capability" of its dual-core predecessor "while consuming 20 percent less power," according to the company.

For example, the processor can switch off cores to lower power consumption when all the power isn't needed, Samsung said.

A quad-core processor was one of the expected improvements to be included in the Galaxy S III, compared to the dual-core processor in the Galaxy S II.

The phone is also expected to have a 4.6-inch display with a 1280-by-720 pixel resolution, as well as an 8-megapixel camera and LTE connectivity for some parts of the world.

Exynos 4 Quad is sampling to other major handset makers, which means they can get their hands on smaller volumes of the processor.

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Samsung reveals processor for Galaxy S III

Samsung has now revealed its in-house Exynos 4 Quad processor, an ARM-based quad-core mobile chip that will put inside the upcoming Android-based Galaxy S III smartphone.

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Samsung has been teasing us with its plans to release a new "Galaxy" product, which most people believe will be the Galaxy S III smartphone. The device will officially be revealed next week. However, Samsung might have already revealed what processor will be inside that next generation Galaxy S smartphone.

Today, the company announced its new Exynos 4 Quad processor. The ARM-based chip has four processor cores and runs at a clock speed of 1.4 GHz. Samsung says that the new chip has double the processing power of its predecessor, the Exynos 4 Dual, while also using 20 percent less power. The new chip was built with a 32nm manufacturing process versus the 45nm process of the Exynos 4 Dual.

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In addition, the new processor incorporates a full HD 30 frame per second video hardware codec engine for high resolution 1080p video recording and play-back, an embedded image signal processor interface for high-quality camera functionality and an HDMI 1.4 interface for sharp and crisp multimedia content transmission.

All of that means that, in theory, the Exynos 4 Quad should run faster and be much more energy efficient than Samsung's last smartphone chip. In addition to being part of the next Galaxy smartphone, Samsung has confirmed the processor "is also sampling to other major handset makers."

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