Samsung Debuts New Powerful Smartphone Chip
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Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s second-largest semiconductor maker, showed off a speedier and more powerful processor, seeking a bigger stake of the surging smartphone market.
The company will begin selling a chip that has eight processors built into the same piece of silicon, Stephen Woo, president of Samsung’s System LSI unit, said at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Four of the processors are designed to run fast when the device needs operating power and the rest are engineered to help conserve battery life.