Samsung held their second Analyst Day yesterday and the outcome of the event is that we now have an idea regarding what Samsung is planning for the smartphone market in the next couple of years. Among the various important revelations in event, certain highlights were that Samsung will be producing their custom ARM core CPUs and are planning to introduce 560ppi display smartphones in 2014 and 4K phones in the year after. Through the various slides revealed during the event, Samsung have officially confirmed that they are indeed working on their own application processor. Until now, Samsung had licensed Cortex processors from ARM and used them in their Exynos chipsets. Henceforth, Samsung will be developing their own processors very much like how Apple and Qualcomm are doing it. The slides indicates that Samsung will be going to the land of 64bit processors where Apple are already sitting pretty. Some of the other important milestones for the future include 560ppi SuperAMOLED displays for next year and 4K displays for the year after. One can argue that 4K TVs are yet to make their way to the mass consumer, how will the smartphones appeal - we may never know. Samsung were the first company to ...Source: http://www.fonearena.com/blog/87333/samsungs-roadmap-reveals-560ppi-and-4k-phones-coming-in-2014-and-2015-respectively.html
