Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes Might help to set spluttering EV market on fire. Won't catch fire thanks to built-in vents Personal Tech25 Apr 2024 | 47
Rapidus US chief says AI chip crunch, supply chain paranoia make for an ideal growth climate Interview Japanese foundry upstart aims to bolster domestic production while catering to growing demand for custom accelerators Systems24 Apr 2024 |
Elon Musk's X to challenge Australian content takedown orders in court Asia In Brief PLUS: Samsung in 'emergency mode'; Tim Cook's Asian charm tour; APAC AI spend to surge Public Sector22 Apr 2024 | 51
Samsung boosts LPDDR5X to 10.7 Gbps, ups efficiency and capacity for mobile and servers Guess what it's great for? Go on, have a guess... 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I Storage17 Apr 2024 | 2
Samsung snags $6.4B in CHIPS Act funds for Texas fabs Work in Austin, Taylor will include new 2nm facility, packaging plant, and Pentagon partnership Systems15 Apr 2024 | 4
World is finally buying more phones and prices are rising Someone forgot to tell Apple and Samsung as Chinese brands rebound Personal Tech15 Apr 2024 | 14
Samsung strikes trouble as unions threaten walkouts, regulator swoops Oh great – another potential kink in the silicon supply chain On-Prem11 Apr 2024 | 3
Wipro appoints new CEO: 32-year veteran and current US boss Srini Pallia takes over ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: YouTube's fake India election ad policy; Singtel not selling Optus; Do Chinese tech stalk former workers? Channel07 Apr 2024 | 1
Samsung enterprise SSD prices skyrocket thanks to AI's appetite for storage Consumer-grade devices won't be hit as hard Storage02 Apr 2024 | 7
Samsung preps inferencing accelerator to take on Nvidia, scores huge sale Asia In Brief PLUS: Tencent's profit plunge; Singtel to build three AI datacenters; McDonald's China gobbles Microsoft AI AI + ML24 Mar 2024 |
Biden to inject Intel with CHIPS fab cash 'next week' Samsung and TSMC apparently slated to receive $6B and $5B On-Prem15 Mar 2024 | 11
GlobalFoundries scores $1.5B in Uncle Sam's semiconductor subsidy bonanza Meanwhile, Intel looks set to bag more than $10B Systems20 Feb 2024 | 2
Apple and Samsung tussle over whose gizmos are hardest to fix Chromebooks earn 'Least Likely to Survive a Screwdriver' award Personal Tech08 Feb 2024 | 11
Japan stumps up more cash for Kioxia and Western Digital to make memory chips Pair still looking to merge after SK hynix blocked deal Storage06 Feb 2024 |
Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong acquitted of stock manipulation charges What a surprise, said no one Legal06 Feb 2024 | 5
Samsung pins hopes on AI to return to growth this year Next generation of devices are going to be packed with it – requiring lots and lots of memory Storage31 Jan 2024 | 3
Things are going to get weird as the nanometer era draws to a close Comment Angstrom age is right around the corner – for state-of-the-art chips, anyway Systems29 Jan 2024 | 19
750 million Indian mobile subscribers' info for sale on dark web Asia In Brief ALSO: Samsung turns to Baidu for Galaxy AI in China; Terraform Labs files for bankruptcy; India's supercomputing ambitions Cyber-crime28 Jan 2024 | 3
Seoul restores smartphone subsidies because premium handsets are apparently essential Buyers in Samsung's home will be offered cheaper Galaxies Personal Tech24 Jan 2024 | 8
Asia beat US, EU in chip building because the West didn't invest, Intel CEO claims Gelsinger reckons pandemic-era supply chain snarls helped demonstrate the sector's importance On-Prem18 Jan 2024 | 29
Apple claims top spot in global smartphone market for first time Shipments grow in Q4 after near two years of declines, and Huawei making a comeback in China Personal Tech16 Jan 2024 | 10
Can you dig it? Samsung buys chunk of a Canadian nickel mining company Korean giant wants a local source of the stuff needed to build batteries Offbeat16 Jan 2024 | 1
Infosys loses ten-year, $1.5 billion contract announced just three months ago Asia In Brief PLUS: Fujitsu Japan spins out servers, storage, and PCs; Japan’s moonshot on track; Samsung reportedly delays Arizona fab opening Channel27 Dec 2023 | 26
ASML joins with Samsung, SK hynix, for chip research lab in South Korea 'Semiconductor alliance' forms as Huawei debuts another chip it shouldn't be able to make On-Prem13 Dec 2023 | 2
Samsung creates a group dedicated to inventing whatever comes next Exec who led memory and battery businesses to global dominance gets the job of defining Chaebol's future Personal Tech28 Nov 2023 | 2
Greenpeace calls out tech giants for carbon footprint fumble Net-zero promises or zero-net progress? Offbeat23 Nov 2023 | 172
Samsung UK discloses year-long breach, leaked customer data Updated Chaebol already the subject of suits for a pair of past indiscretions Security17 Nov 2023 | 4
Gauss we've all got a fresh option for a gen AI handheld: A Samsung device Vendor promises ChatGPT and DALL•E-esque products in the near future Personal Tech09 Nov 2023 | 10
Samsung family sells $2B worth of shares to pay inheritance tax bill Nothing is certain except death and taxes Legal06 Nov 2023 | 7
Samsung's results hint it's time to RAM some money into your memory budget Chaebol reckons market is recovering and prices will rise. Analysts agree On-Prem01 Nov 2023 |
Samsung nabs contract to produce 3nm server chips for mystery US biz Parts reportedly geared toward high-performance compute and leverage advanced packaging Systems13 Oct 2023 |
US allows Samsung and SK hynix to keep making chips in China Investments protected, diplomatic rift averted … even Beijing likes it Systems10 Oct 2023 | 7
Samsung to fab chips for RISC-V processor world's Tenstorrent For now, chaebol will manufacture AI startup’s 4nm Quasar Systems04 Oct 2023 | 2
Samsung wants to push CAMM format into memory mainstream Smaller footprint and detachable Storage26 Sep 2023 | 6
The clock is ticking and Korea wants to know if its chipmakers will get their export license extension SK hynix and Samsung do so much memory-making in China, ending sanction exemptions would be extraordinary Systems22 Sep 2023 | 7
Korea's FTC fines Broadcom $14.3M for pushing 'unfair' deal onto Samsung Updated Watchdog claims it abused market position to leverage 'unfavorable' long-term parts supply contract Systems21 Sep 2023 |
Samsung teases 1TB DDR5 modules with launch of 32Gb die Asia in Brief PLUS: China allows first wave of chatbots, India’s sun-spotter soars; ASUS smacks down speculation it will quit smartphones On-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 3
Dell and Samsung grab first-class tickets for AI hype train Stock prices shoot up thanks to tech flavor of the moment AI + ML01 Sep 2023 | 6
Samsung realizes behaving ethically is good for business, says compliance boss Mega-corp has mastered the complexity of numerous technologies but it took several scandals to impart this obvious lesson Legal29 Aug 2023 | 8
Wafer shipments still down, but chipmakers are looking up AI runs on chips, remember Systems27 Jul 2023 | 2
Samsung makes big promises about GDDR7 RAM Too bad GPU slingers keep shrinking the memory bus Storage20 Jul 2023 | 3
Samsung 'closing the gap' with TSMC on 3nm, 4nm The race to 2nm is getting crowded as Intel, Japan's Rapidus enter the fray Systems18 Jul 2023 | 2
Samsung’s midrange A54 is lovely, but users won't feel seen First look Mostly indistinguishable from a premium handset, but the moments it misses may leave you miffed Personal Tech14 Jul 2023 | 48
Samsung warns of imminent profit plunge It looks like memory glut and consumer indifference to smartmobes are persisting Personal Tech07 Jul 2023 | 8
Samsung to start mass producing 2nm silicon in 2025, first for mobile devices Forms a packaging posse to do the chiplet thing On-Prem29 Jun 2023 | 8
Vodafone offers '5G Ultra' to users of very specific phones in very specific locations 'It will likely be unnoticeable for many consumers' says analyst Networks26 Jun 2023 | 19
Broadcom squeezed Samsung, now South Korea's squeezing back – hard Updated Regulators won't accept proposed remedy for nasty parts deal – but EU may have accepted VMware deal Virtualization14 Jun 2023 |
Former exec accused of trying to clone entire Samsung chip fab on Chinese soil 65-year-old allegedly stole 'blueprints and designs' for manufacturing sub-30nm DRAM and NAND Systems12 Jun 2023 | 4
TSMC boss tells investors everything's fine, that ten percent revenue drop is a blip Taiwan's silicon titan races to ready 2nm process On-Prem06 Jun 2023 |
Smartphone recovery that's always around the corner is around the corner Pay a bill or buy new phone? That lovely question facing some of us in 2023 Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 40
Samsung's screens will check your blood pressure if the movie's too scary Video Also: phones that fold through 360 degrees, rollable tablets, and an expanded OLED detector Personal Tech24 May 2023 | 11
Micron, Kyocera, Samsung bet billions on Japan chip plants Meanwhile, Fujifilm pursues photolithography interests in Taiwan Systems18 May 2023 | 3
Korea hopes US will extend sanction exemptions for SK hynix and Samsung Stuck in the middle or not, supply chains – and the Korean economy – must carry on Legal10 May 2023 | 1
Now you've all quit buying RAM and personal gear, chip wafer demand stumbles We thought you loved us, cries someone in a fab somewhere, probably Systems03 May 2023 | 6
TSMC chips away at the competition with 2nm production set for 2025 World's largest semiconductor contract manufacturer also gives details on 3nm nodes Systems02 May 2023 | 6
Samsung puts ChatGPT back in the box after 'code leak' Others also blocked as company works on its own generative AI tech AI + ML02 May 2023 | 5
Perhaps meeting with Pope Francis did help iPhone sales Apple only vendor to report shipment rise in tricky Q1 for smartphone industry Personal Tech27 Apr 2023 | 4
Weak memory demand leaves both Samsung and SK hynix nursing losses With inventory surplus still an issue, revenues are 'bottoming out' Systems27 Apr 2023 | 1
Samsung to cough up third of a billion bucks for ripping off patent Next on Netlist's hit list? Micron and Google Storage24 Apr 2023 | 10
Samsung scores fresh Radeon deal with AMD for Exynos chip line ahead of profit crunch Prelim Q1 2023 results expected to be company's worst in 14 years Systems06 Apr 2023 | 2
Samsung reportedly leaked its own secrets through ChatGPT Well that didn't take long, now did it? AI + ML06 Apr 2023 | 45
Samsung takes $3.1B gamble on OLED displays for tablets and notebooks That must be why PC sales are down – the blacks just aren't inky enough Systems04 Apr 2023 | 18