Another day, another rumour about Samsung’s forthcoming flagship phone, the Galaxy S III. However, this rumour has much more substance than any we’ve heard recently, as it comes directly from the mouth of a Samsung executive.
In Samsung’s home land of Korea, an unnamed executive from the company has told the Korea Times that Samsung plans to use one of its own Quad-Core processors in the Galaxy S III: an Exynos chip. The chip in question is likely to be the Exynos 4412, a new type of chip with four processing cores that Samsung is yet to use in a device.
The Exynos 4412 is based on 32-nanometer architecture with four Cortex A9 cores that will run at speeds of up to 1.5GHz each – which should be more than ample enough to rival the likes of the HTC One X, which utilises the Tegra 3 Quad-Core processor from Nvidia.
Samsung has recently moved away from using components from rival chip maker Qualcomm, whom it had a deal with to provide single-core chips for use in Samsung devices. The Korean manufacturer wishes to switch to using its own chips, such as the Exynos 4412. The unnamed Samsung executive spoke with the Korea Times about this move:
“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.
A Quad-Core processor is very likely to feature in the Galaxy S III, and is widely regarded as “a given” by many in the industry, alongside a more powerful camera sensor and larger display. Samsung’s Galaxy S III is expected to launch within the next few months, with recent rumours pointing towards a May 22nd unveiling in London.
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Via: The Next Web