Rumour: Samsung tablet with ARM Cortex A15 at MWC

It may not be the Samsung Galaxy SIII at the MWC 2012 show, but the South Korean group may yet present the first tablet to be powered by an ARM Cortex-A15 processor.

While there has been a lot of speculation about whether the Samsung Galaxy SIII (the groups next leading model) will be launched or not at the MWC 2012 show in Barcelona to take place in February, it is rumoured that the first Galaxy Tab tablet powered by the ARM Cortex-A15 could be seen.

A lot of smartphones and tablets currently available on the market use the ARM Cortex-A9 architecture, with this being at the heart of hardware platform evolutions like the NVidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor


The first Galaxy Tab running ARM Cortex-A15?
ARM Cortex-A15 represents the latest evolution of the architecture for mobile processors, with the first commercial products using this to be seen later this year. While Texas Instruments unveiled their strategy last year with the OMAP5, Samsung unveiled the Exynos 5250 dual core processor using this architecture in December 2011.

This processor could be found in a Galaxy Tab tablet to be presented at MWC 2012 according to the site Android&Me who launched the rumour of a tablet with a display larger than 10" with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels, powered by a 2 GHz Exynos 5250 dual core processor with Android 4.x Ice Cream Sandwich.

Knowing that the Exynos 5250 processor should enter into mass production from the second quarter of 2012 and that Samsung has the capability of offering such a display, the theory that such a device could be release dis plausible, with a commercial release later in the year. It shouldn’t be forgotten that the Galaxy Tab 10.1, unveiled in February 2011, was only launched the following summer (after going on a strict diet to reduce its thickness).