Samsung President Stephen Woo on stage at the annual Consumer Electronics Show. Woo tells the audience the talk will focus on three areas: advances in processing, how new memory solutions are speeding up response times, and display technology with new form factors. Also: "new ideas and new focus on mobilizing possibility for all the world's people."
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Woo tells the audience at CES that there are more than 6 billion mobile devices in use and more than half a billion smartphones sold -- and as people become more attached to these devices, they want more things. Today's devices are all about ease of use and experience, he says.
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In the midst of Woo's talk, dancers appeared on stage to perform a dance that apparently had to do with components. Woo follows the performance by exclaiming that "components are building blocks."
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Woo debuts Samsung's Exynos5 Octa, a new processor that has two sets of four-core processors each. It's made to run intense apps while also conserving energy when handling basic tasks, Woo tells the audience.
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The new Exynos5 Octa is the next product in a line of processors using the Exynos name. Woo says the company already has these processors in 53 million devices.
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Electronic Arts VP Glen Roland shows off what the new 8-core processor from Samsung can do for 3D games.
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A cat video promoting image processor technology and data use elicits several chuckles from the crowd. "Data isn't getting any wider, and cats are only getting cuter," the announcer says.
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Youm, Samsung's new flexible OLED display technology, was one of the highlights of the presentation. Here Samsung's Brian Berkeley, SVP of Samsung's display lab, holds up a Youm display and bends it on stage. "Imagine the products you could design with this," he says.
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Microsoft shows off a prototype of how a Windows Phone would look on one of the new Youm displays.
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"Some companies talk about a reality distortion field. We actually built one," quips Microsoft's chief technical strategy officer, Eric Rudder, as he shows off the prototype of a Windows Phone with the Youm display.
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Former President Bill Clinton appeared on stage as a guest near the end of the keynote to talk about mobile technology in the developing world. He also talked about the need for gun control.
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"This electronics show shows how much technology has changed, and what we have to look forward to," Clinton told the audience. But let's not forget about the poor countries that can benefit from technology, he added.
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