{"id":11041,"date":"2012-04-26T19:26:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T17:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=11041"},"modified":"2012-04-29T22:37:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T20:37:15","slug":"samsung-going-quad-core-with-galaxy-siii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/11041\/samsung-going-quad-core-with-galaxy-siii\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung going quad-core with Galaxy SIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Samsung\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1813-Samsung\">Samsung Electronics Co<\/a> said on Thursday it would mass-produce its faster, energy-saving quad-core mobile microprocessor to power the third generation of its flagship Galaxy S smartphone, due to be unveiled next week.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung said it is sampling the chips to major handset makers as it seeks to expand its customer base from <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1648-Apple\">Apple Inc<\/a> to its handset rivals such as <a title=\"nokia\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1650-Nokia-Corporation\">Nokia<\/a> , <a title=\"HTC Corporation\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/340335-HTC-Corp.\">HTC<\/a> and <a title=\"Motorola\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1716-Motorola-Mobility\">Motorola<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean firm is the world&#8217;s top manufacturer of mobile application processors (AP), enjoying booming sales of Apple&#8217;s iPhone and iPad as well as its own Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets.<\/p>\n<p>The Exynos 4 Quad, based on British chip designer <a title=\"ARM Holdings\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2082-ARM-Holdings\">ARM Holdings&#8217;<\/a> Cortex A9 technology, enables more tasks in a shorter period of time, for example, a task such as streaming video can run on one core while the other cores update applications in the background, connecting to the web and scanning virus-check simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung plans to unveil its upgraded Galaxy S III smartphone next week in London, banking on a heavy marketing campaign heading into the summer Olympics in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics Co said on Thursday it would mass-produce its faster, energy-saving quad-core mobile microprocessor to power the third generation of its flagship Galaxy S smartphone, due to be unveiled next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,2369,2550,2551,52],"class_list":["post-11041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-galaxy-s3","tag-galaxy-siii","tag-quad-core","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11041"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11046,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions\/11046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}