Samsung recently hosted a conference in Sunnyvale, California with its senior executives who flew in from Korea and presented several of the technology broadsides that the business intends to launch against Apple over the coming year.

The key areas involve smart phones, tablets, laptops as well as the courts, where Apple has charged Samsung of things such as trade dress (making many parts of the consumer experience look much like Apple’s iPhone and the iPad advertisements.)

Samsung announced that it will offer a tablet in 2012 with a 2560 x 1600 resolution, and that they are working with CPU/GPU providers to obtain enough horsepower to drive that type of a high-resolution display with adequate speed.

Apple is widely suspected to be working on the same things for the iPad.

Chances are that this will not happen until the first half of 2012, but perhaps Samsung or Apple can surprise us early.