Samsung is preparing to release a tablet Galaxy Note 8.0 and Galaxy Tab 3

It is not a secret that Samsung in 2013 is going to present a few tablet PCs, including "stilusny" Galaxy Note 8.0 and Galaxy Tab 3.

According to DigiTimes, the Korean manufacturer has decided to strengthen its position in the tablet market in the segment of low-cost devices, where its main competitors are the devices Acer, ASUS and "Apple iPad mini.

According to the resource, the appearance on the market 7 - and 10-inch tablet (apparently, it is a Galaxy Tab 3rd generation) is expected in the first half of the price (in the U.S.) 149 - 199 dollars for a younger version.

The cost of the 8-inch tablet (probably, Galaxy Note 8.0) will be 249 - $ 299 that will be a powerful blow to rival Apple iPad mini, is offered for $ 329 and
above. It is clarified that the specifications of the tablet from Samsung will be very attractive.

According Sammobile Samsung, new Galaxy Note 8.0 will be the owner of the 1.6-GHz processor with 4 cores - Exynos Quad, Super Clear LCD screen with an 8-inch diagonal (1280 x 800 pixels), two cameras: 1.3 - and 5 - MP, Battery 4600 mA / h, as well as Bluetooth 4.0 and A-GPS-modules. Volumes of operational and internal memory will be 2 GB and 16 (32), respectively (a microSD-slot).

In the role of the OS will make Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. Dimensions devaysa: 7,95 × 136,3 × 211,3 mm and weighs 330 grams.

Samsung is working on a 8-core chip for tablets and smartphones

The company Samsung plans in early 2013 to provide an 8-core mobile processor, designed for use in tablets and smartphones. It is expected that the Corporation will demonstrate the new product at the conference ISSCC (San Francisco, 17 - 21 February).

Concept of chip technology will be ARM big.LITTLE. This configuration involves placing a single crystal of a weak processor, low power consumption, and much more powerful. The first will be assigned simple tasks: background, book, audio output, and the second - CPU-intensive tasks such as surfing the internet in the networks LTE, games, etc.

NVIDIA has used this configuration in the ARM-processor Tegra 3 (to save energy use an auxiliary low-voltage core, perform a simple task).

According to EETimes, Samsung will share the new 28-nanometer "system on a chip" into two clusters on the four cores: one with low-power 1.2-GHz ARM Cortex A7, the second - with core Cortex A15 (1,8 GHz and 2 MB L2- cache).

AndroidHeadlines believes that originally the manufacturer will release a light version of the processor (for a smartphone Galaxy S IV), which may also be composed of two clusters, but the 2-core (2 2 A7 + A15). Full version of the same (4 +4), according to the blog will come somewhere in the middle of 2013 and will be applied in the new Galaxy Tab tablets and Galaxy Note.