It has been a very crazy weekend as far as Samsung leaks and rumors go. Finally, we have something official.
According to the Korea Times, the Galaxy S III smartphone will feature its new quad-core Exynos processor. The Samsung Exynos 4412 chip features four processing cores, 32-nanometer quad-core design with ARM Cortex-A9 cores running at speeds up to 1.5GHz.
Performance-wise, the 32-nanometer processor will provide up to 26% more than Samsung’s current 45-nanometer line-up, with battery life improvements by more than 50%.
“We don’t think there will be big technology-related problems as we have already tested our telecommunications chips in some smartphones and tablets for consumers in North America. Also, Google’s first reference mobile, the Galaxy Nexus, is using Samsung’s telecom chips,’’ said the executive.
Samsung has a stronger intent to lower its dependence on Qualcomm and our technicians believe that we have made significant progress in producing logic-based chips for high-end devices, combined logic and memory chips for graphic controllers and core communication chips for Internet-enabled consumer devices,’’ he added.
Given that Samsung is now one of the world’s top smartphone makers, it has galvanized its chip-making business to expand and manage its own range of telecoms chips. Samsung is already the world’s top memory chip maker but shifting the focus to non-memory chips would help improve the company’s margins in the hugely competitive fabrication market.
“If Samsung successfully strengthens its management for telecommunications chips, then it expects to see more revenue from smartphones and tablets. That’s the scenario we hope,’’ the Samsung executive notes.
Samsung has said that it will debut the Galaxy S III before Q3 of 2012 at one of the Samsung press events.
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