Samsung

Samsung releases 24Gb GDDR7 DRAM for testing in beefy AI systems

Production slated for Q1 2025, barring any hiccups

Storage17 Oct 2024 | 7

Samsung's HBM3E has been a disaster, but there's a path back

Comment 274% profit increase belies missed deadlines, botched launches, and scrambling leadership

Systems15 Oct 2024 | 1

Samsung apologizes for bad financial performance

Profit doesn't pop despite AI-inspired memory boom, leading to executive mea culpa

Systems08 Oct 2024 | 8

Samsung chairman debunks foundry, chip biz spinoff rumors

But not hard to believe of business units with over $2 billion in operating losses in 2023

Systems07 Oct 2024 |

Epic Games starts Battle Royale with Samsung, Google over app store practices

Updated Alleges Korean giant's app store lockdown is no accident, and anticompetitive

Software01 Oct 2024 | 12

Samsung fined just $8K for exposing chip fab workers to X-ray radiation

Nothing says 'oops' like a penalty that won’t even dent the electronics giant’s coffee budget

Offbeat26 Sep 2024 | 16

Samsung and pals Hyundai, Kia team for software-defined cars, IoT integration

Turn on home aircon and maybe peer inside the fridge or oven – all from behind the wheel

Personal Tech25 Sep 2024 | 30

TSMC, Samsung reportedly eye UAE's silicon fields for fab expansion

There’s no shortage of sand, but chip plants are thirsty for something even more precious: Water

Systems23 Sep 2024 | 6

Samsung faces strikes in India, amid reports of global layoffs

Union alleges work conditions are like solitary confinement and violence is common at Tamil Nadu plant

Legal12 Sep 2024 | 1

Ex Samsung execs reportedly arrested for alleged IP theft in China chip caper

Duo accused of stealing $3.2B of 20nm tech and secrets

Legal10 Sep 2024 |

Rising AI tide lifts price of all chips - HBM, natch, but also slower memory and storage

Thank binary brainboxes for helping to inflate PC and Smartphone prices

Systems08 Aug 2024 |

Samsung boosts bug bounty to a cool million for cracks of the Knox Vault subsystem

Good luck, crackers: It's an isolated processor and storage enclave, and top dollar only comes from a remote attack

Security08 Aug 2024 | 5

Samsung labor union orders members back to work and a 'tactical transition' to ongoing action

Actions haven't stopped Chaebol from commencing mass production of new mobile memory

On-Prem06 Aug 2024 | 1

Samsung confirms Exynos 2500 chip as profit skyrockets on back of AI memory boom

Strikes? What strikes?

Personal Tech31 Jul 2024 | 1

Chinese researchers create four-gram drone that might fly forever

Asia in brief Plus: Former Samsung worker jailed for leaking secrets; Robo-cabs reach Shanghai airport; and more

Science22 Jul 2024 | 8

Samsung buys UK AI startup to give its products the personal touch

Oxford Semantic could help your fridge and smartphone pick up on your proclivities

AI + ML18 Jul 2024 | 15

UK cyber-boss slams China's bug-hoarding laws

ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Japanese scientists ID ancient supernova; AWS dismisses China trouble rumor; and more

Security15 Jul 2024 | 1

South Korean Samsung union strikes again in bid to chip away at production

It'd be a shame if something happened to that HBM fab, warns NSEU

Personal Tech10 Jul 2024 | 1

Good news: Samsung predicts prodigious profit pop

Bad news: It's probably because you have to pay more for RAM

Systems05 Jul 2024 |

Samsung teases investment to get into the GPU game

Analysis A head-on assault on Nvidia seems unlikely – but dumping AMD from Exynos has merit

AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 7

Samsung Korea warns many apps won't run on its Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PCs

FWIW Microsoft says 'your apps run great' even when emulated on Arm

Personal Tech20 Jun 2024 | 46

SK hynix shimmies towards AI silicon by driving merger of South Korean Nvidia challengers

Sapeon and Rebellions think they can do better together

Systems13 Jun 2024 |

Samsung union stages its first ever strike – very politely

Members stop work – on a day many take off, anyway – in pursuit of better conditions

Legal07 Jun 2024 | 9

Samsung workers treated for exposure to radiation in South Korea

Workplace safety org identifies 26 hazards in the chipmaking process

Systems30 May 2024 | 10

iFixit divorces Samsung over lack of real commitment to DIY repair program

CEO tells El Reg the phone titan's 'refusal to be completely candid with us was a major factor'

Personal Tech23 May 2024 | 55

Europe buying more Chinese phone brands as market starts to bounce back

Apple and Samsung still on top, though, and pre-pandemic numbers but a faraway dream

Personal Tech23 May 2024 | 18

Even TSMC can't cook chips fast enough to sate AI's hunger

Semiconductor foundry industry thanks its lucky stars amid slow general recovery

Systems22 May 2024 |

Hunger for more HBM capacity could cause shortage DRAM-a

Analyst warns of another unfortunate side effect of AI

Storage21 May 2024 |

Samsung takes bite out of Apple over its mega marketing misstep

'We would never crush creativity,' says South Korea megacorp

Bootnotes16 May 2024 | 26

Samsung sole winner as US smartphone market hits sixth quarterly decline in a row

Industry looks towards genAI, interest rate cuts for reprieve as America hangs onto its old phones

Personal Tech10 May 2024 | 15

Here’s another thing AI can do: Return Samsung’s memory biz to profit

HBM will help too. Foundry biz? On track for 2nm but bruised

On-Prem30 Apr 2024 |

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 | 201

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 | 2

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 | 60

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