Tag Archive for "Samsung"

Mar 20, 2012 analysis
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Samsung shows 14nm and 20nm wafers

Common Platform 2012: Fins, no fins, and a little quiz

Samsung wasn’t going to be shown up by IBM at the wafer bragging sweepstakes, so they showed of a 14nm wafer and a 20nm wafer.

Mar 19, 2012 Chips
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Samsung Exynos 5 GPU specs captured

Common Platform 2012: And the dev board too......

Running around at Common Platform, we happened to notice a little slide on Samsung’s Exynos 5 series specs.

Feb 28, 2012 Chips
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Samsung shows off 20nm PRAM

Outperforms NAND based SSDs and is compatible with NOR flash.

Samsung unveiled the first 20nm PRAM part at ISSCC in San Francisco last week.

Feb 28, 2012 Chips
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DDR4 shows up in the wild

And of course it is faster and better than DDR3.

The first two DDR4 chips come from South Korea.

Jan 31, 2012 Channel

SeaMicro packs 2TB of DRAM into a 10U

Not to mention 64 Xeons, drives, and 10GbE

SeaMicro, Intel, and Samsung have teamed up to bring you something very dense and powerful.

Dec 29, 2011 analysis

Exclusive: Samsung to make a Tizen phone

Linux for the masses?

After spending some time on the east coast, it is clear that the migratory moles there have a great deal of information…

Dec 1, 2011 Chips

Samsung starts sampling world’s first Cortex-A15

The new 32nm dual core processor clocks in at 2GHz.

Samsung (SEO:005930) has started sampling a processor based on the latest microarchitecture, the A15, from ARM.

Oct 4, 2011 Channel

Samsung shows off 32GB DIMMs and more

IDF 2011: Low power, high capacity, and quite dense

Samsung has a lot of cutting edge DRAM technologies to show off, and they did just that at IDF.

Sep 22, 2011 Chips

Samsung has started mass production of 20nm DDR3

Also opens a new fab for 20nm NAND flash

Many companies have started sampling 2nm DDR3 memory, but Samsung is first out of the door with actual mass production of the memory based on a 20nm process.

Sep 14, 2011 Microprocessors

Intel adores Google

Hugs and Kisses, Meego gone missing

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) throws its weight behind Android and barely mentions Windows 8.

Sep 9, 2011 Channel

Qualcomm looses the branding hounds

This is the start of something big

Remember when we said that Qualcomm decided to bang the branding drum really hard at Computex?

Sep 2, 2011 Channel

Exclusive: unannounced joint AMD Samsung project pictured

We are going to get letters for this.......

Running around AMD HQ yesterday, you get to occasionally see some things you probably shouldn’t be allowed to know about.

Aug 31, 2011 Microprocessors

Virtual smartphones ready for prime time

LG and Samsung first to implement VMware’s mobile hypervisor on select models.

VMware (NYSE:VMW) has talked about its mobile hypervisor for Android the past year and now it is ready for prime time, VMware revealed during their VMworld conference here in Las Vegas.

Aug 30, 2011 Chips

Global Foundries and Samsung split 28nm processes

GTC 2011: Meet 28-LPH, the new joint process

Global Foundries and Samsung put out a joint release about a new 28nm process, conveniently jointly developed.

Aug 30, 2011 Chips

Samsung may resurrect WebOS

Hires head of HP’s mobility division

It looks like WebOS may not be dead after all, even though HP has canceled the TouchPad, there are signs that Samsung (SEO:0059300) may be interested in buying the operating system behind the TouchPad.

Aug 25, 2011 Desktop

Acer: Tablet market very disappointing

The PC market is slow, but tablets are worse off. It also explains why Samsung won’t touch HP’s PC division with a 10’ barge pole.

Acer (TPE:2353) shares stopped trading briefly in Taiwan this morning as they hit what is called “limit low”, indicating that the stock exchange has a severe imbalance between buyers and sellers.

Aug 23, 2011 Channel

HP sends the channel a bland message

Memogate: A yawner of no substance

What is HP telling their channel partners at this time of missteps and growing confusion?

Aug 19, 2011 Channel

Insiders say there is one company looking at the HP PC line

And Palm sales don't track the PR line

Being in Palo Alto for Hot Chips 23, you run in to a lot of people who know things about big stories like the HP PC fire sale and Palm knifing.

Aug 15, 2011 Graphics

Did Apple PhotoShop into an injunction against Samsung?

Aspect ratio in photo delivered to German court is not correct.

It seems that Apple (NASDAQ:APPL) has been caught with its pants down by the Dutch website webwereld (webworld), which has compared the evidence submitted by Apple to a German court in order to obtain an EU junction against Samsung’s (005930:Korea SE) Galaxy Tab.

Aug 4, 2011 Chips

Samsung hedges its memory bet

Swallows MRAM company to be on the safe side

Anyone who has heard a research speech from Samsung Electronics (SEO:005930) knows that NAND-flash is coming to an end.

Jul 18, 2011 Chips

ReRAM gets closer to reality

Resistive memory, swings both ways

Samsung manages to rewrite resistive memory 1 trillion times and IMEC invents new filament to allow aggressive scaling.

Jul 14, 2011 Microprocessors

Samsung tapes out first 20nm processor

First 20nm chip is a test processor based on ARM’s architecture

Samsung Foundry, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (SEO:005930) is currently testing its entire 20nm process flow and has just taped out a complete test processor.

Jun 27, 2011 Channel

Apple CPUs rolling off the line at TSMC

Last April's test seems to have worked out

Sources in Taiwan tell SemiAccurate that there are currently Apple marked chips coming off the lines at TSMC.

Jun 15, 2011 Microprocessors

Chromebook is really a netbook

Samsung supplies Apple and Google

The Chromebook from Samsung looks very much like a netbook and is also using an Atom processor.

May 29, 2011 Channel

Windows 8 for ARM requirements leak

WARMed over iPad2

Windows 8 on ARM is going to be a lot more than Intel is giving it credit for, and a lot less than the MS hype.

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