{"id":39121,"date":"2011-12-01T09:37:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T07:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=39121"},"modified":"2011-12-01T09:39:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T07:39:02","slug":"samsung-readies-2ghz-dual-core-for-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/39121-samsung-readies-2ghz-dual-core-for-tablets.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung readies 2GHz dual core for tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Exynos 5250 dual-core CPU is <a title=\"Samsung\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/333656-Samsung\">Samsung\u2019s<\/a> latest offering based on the Coretex-A15 ARM design. It is \u201ddesigned specifically for high-end tablets\u201d according to the company.<\/p>\n<p>The chip is based on a 32nm manufacturing technology, which makes use of \u201chigh-k metal gate\u201d processes that result in small chip dimensions, and is expected to offer nearly double the performance of the current range of Coretex-A8 based dual core ARM processors running at 1.5Ghz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In particular, the Exynos 5250 design was architected to drive up to an industry leading 2560&#215;1600 (WQXGA) display,\u201d continued Samsung, reaffirming that the 5250 will find itself in high end tablet devices.<\/p>\n<p>The company also noted that the new chip has a 12.8GB\/s memory bandwidth, double that of Coretex-A9 based chips and a key factor in allowing the 5250 to support 3D graphics at high resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>Samples of the chip have been shipped to customers, with Samsung expecting mass-production to kick off in Q2 of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13924_3-57334028-64\/samsungs-2ghz-chip-to-drive-new-tablet-displays\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has shown off a new 2GHz chip for use in next generation high end tablets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":26041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7091,645,7089],"class_list":["post-39121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-coretex-a-15","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-exynos-5250"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39123,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39121\/revisions\/39123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}