You're vastly simplifying what is a huge and costly endeavor. The octa is a new chip, so yields are likely low... given that they're only pushing it to support the Asian market, which is substantially smaller than the north American market indicates that a small number of chips are in circulation. Qualcomm licensing is a better, of not far more expensive option. With comparable performance, high yield fabs able too produce a comparable solution...it's the best option.
Just push back the release? I don't know off you understand the whole "early bird/worm" dynamic, but Samsung has key deliverable dates they have tho meet to stay on top. Put simpler, had the gs4 not debuted when it did...that 5 million Htc Ones would be a heck of a lot more with the absence of a true competitor...and the gs4 would have looked a whole lot less attractive against similar performing devices likely to see the light of day from Lg and others as the months droned on. The current (almost) s600 variant, remember it's not the exact same chip as in the one, platforms favorably against that device...and nothing else on the market comes close to either one...so for Samsung, the positioning was win win...faster than the direct competitor, and leagues ahead of last green devices like the nexus 4 and I phone5. Seems like pretty smart move to me and about 9 million 999,999 thousand other people that bought one
You're also forgetting that while this whole smart phone thing goes on around us...Samsung is desperately ramping up stock for production of next generation tablets that will undoubtedly use the octa...and to an extent...better capitalize on the performance afforded by that chip with the race toward higher resolution screens and the need to push more pixels. Remember, the gs4 is "only" pushing s 1900x1200 panel..far less pixels than the likely 2500x1600 and beyond displays in the next generation of cutting edge tablets...
Jack
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