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Whilst it’s been rumoured for a number of months, Korean electronics giant Samsung hasn’t confirmed that it will outfit its new flagship Android smartphone — referred to as the Galaxy S III — with its new quad-core Exynos processors.

That was until today, when an unnamed Samsung executive told the Korea Times that one of its 32-nanometer chips will debut in the company’s much-anticipated handset.

Storage specialist SanDisk is to take to the stage at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) to present what it claims is the future of flash storage: a three-bits-per-cell chip capable of squeezing 128Gb into 170 square millimetres.

Like Intel and Micron's joint announcement late last year of a 128Gb flash memory chip, SanDisk is boasting of increase capacities. Where its competitor is using a 20nm process size, however, SanDisk has shrunk down even further to 19nm.

The partnership between Cisco and Samsung is starting to bear fruit as last week at the Cisco Live event in Las Vegas the South Korean IT&C&CE&more heavyweight (Samsung) revealed the very first monitor to support the Universal Power Over Ethernet (UPOE) technology.

Android 4.0 arrived with quite the hard thud late last year, whilst it looks pretty cool, the Android-based smartphones and tablets just did not adapt quick enough. Most smartphone and tablet makers really dragged their feet, with even flagship products such as the phone that rocks along in my pocket, the Samsung Galaxy S II, not receiving it yet.