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China continues to butcher one of Samsung’s cash cows

Samsung's memory business has been a literal cash cow for the longest time but it's now facing headwinds. The company has fallen behind SK Hynix in the lucrative HBM3E market and it's still waiting on a potentially lucrative order from NVIDIA. Meanwhile, Samsung continues to face tough competition from Chinese memory makers in the DRAM […]

By Adnan Farooqui
2 weeks ago

The biggest China threat to Samsung’s business is worsening

Memory sales make up a huge chunk of Samsung's revenues and profit. In Q3 2024, the company earned $8.59 billion from DRAM sales. This alone accounted for 39.8% of all sales from its semiconductor division. Any threat to this business segment is certainly a great cause of concern for the conglomerate. Memory makers in China […]

By Adnan Farooqui
3 weeks ago

Samsung makes 24Gb GDDR7 DRAM chips for next-gen GPUs

Samsung has announced it has developed the world's first 24GB GDDR7 DRAM memory chip for GPUs. This high-capacity memory chip, featuring the fastest performance in the industry, will be used in flagship GPUs next year, advancing performance and efficiency. It was also the first brand in the world to complete the development of GDDR7 chips. […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Samsung PM9E1 SSD enters mass production with extra anti-forgery measures

Samsung's bonkers PM9E1 SSD, boasting industry-leading performance, has entered mass production, the company confirmed to us today. The PM9E1 was first announced at the beginning of August but it is now being securely shipped out of Samsung's semiconductor factories. More on that later. Performance-wise, Samsung says the PM9E1 is the industry's most powerful PC SSD. […]

By Mihai Matei
3 months ago

Korean authorities arrest ex-Samsung exec for industrial espionage

At the beginning of the month, the industrial espionage case involving ex-Samsung executive Choi Jinseog re-emerged as the Seoul Central District Court issued a warrant to detain Choi after deeming him a flight risk. The case moved forward, and according to newer reports, it appears to have culminated with the arrest of Mr. Choi and […]

By Mihai Matei
3 months ago

Samsung’s LPDDR4X memory can be used with Qualcomm’s car platform

Samsung, the world's biggest memory chip maker, has announced that its LPDDR4X DRAM chips designed for automobiles have been qualified to be used in Qualcomm's Snapdragon Digital Chassis platform. The company is also working on next-generation memory chips for automobiles. Samsung's LPDDR4X DRAM chips qualified to be used with Qualcomm's automobile platform Samsung's LPDDR4X DRAM […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
4 months ago

Samsung to unveil new industry-leading storage chips today

Samsung, the world's biggest memory chip maker, has revealed that it will unveil the world's fastest and highest-capacity storage chips today. The company will unveil its new products, aligned with the AI boom, at the Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2024 event in the USA. Samsung's to bring new storage chips to support AI boom At […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
4 months ago

Samsung’s new smartphone memory chip is as thin as a fingernail

Samsung has unveiled the world's thinnest LPDDR5X DRAM chip, which is just 0.65mm thin, or as thin as a fingernail. This chip is made for high-end smartphones, which typically have an onboard neural processing unit (NPU) for on-device AI processing. Samsung's newest LPDDR5X DRAM is just 0.65mm thin, making it the world's thinnest in its […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
4 months ago

Samsung bets on next-gen CXL DRAM to cash in on AI boom

Samsung was a bit late to the high-bandwidth memory party which enabled cross-town rival SK Hynix to run with the ball and establish a solid footing in the industry. While Samsung has made efforts to capitalize on the AI boom with its HBM3E memory modules, the results are far from what the company would have […]

By Adnan Farooqui
5 months ago

Samsung plans 15-20% price hike on enterprise memory due to AI

AI, specifically Generative AI, is the new big thing tech companies are chasing. It seemingly defines this generation of mobile devices, computers, and services, and its increase in popularity will create ripple effects across some industries. Memory is among those segments driven in large part by AI, and Samsung Electronics may have much to win […]

By Mihai Matei
6 months ago

Apple Vision Pro 2 could use more Samsung tech and be cheaper

Apple's first Vision Pro mixed reality headset may have failed to change the world due to its high price and relatively undercooked feature set. Even so, the Vision Pro seemingly marks the beginning of a new device category for Apple. In other words, it might not be a one-off device but the start of a […]

By Mihai Matei
7 months ago

Samsung unveils world’s first 10.7Gbps LPDDR5X DRAM chip, designed for AI

Samsung, the world's biggest memory chip manufacturer, has unveiled its fastest LPDDR5X DRAM chip. The new chip can attain data transfer speeds of up to 10.7Gbps, higher than the 6.4Gbps LPDDR5X chip launched in 2021 and the 8.5Gbps LPDDR5X DRAM chip unveiled in 2022. Samsung's new LPDDR5X DRAM chips will be available in late 2024 […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
8 months ago

Samsung plans 3D DRAM launch next year for AI chip dominance

Samsung is gearing up to take full advantage of the intense demand for high quality memory solutions due to the AI gold rush. It's already won a lot of praise for its new high-bandwidth memory products from the likes of NVIDIA, a market leader in AI semiconductors. The company is now looking to expand its […]

By Adnan Farooqui
8 months ago

Samsung CEO impressed by Tesla Cybertruck during test drive

Kye Hyun Kyung, President & CEO of Samsung Electronics’ Device Solutions Division, is on a tour of five cities in the United States to meet clients. During his tour, he got a chance to drive the Tesla Cybertruck and he seems pretty impressed with it. In a post on Instagram, Kyung shared a video of […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
8 months ago

Samsung lists its GDDR7 memory chips for next-gen GPUs

Eight months ago, Samsung revealed that it had completed the development of GDDR7 memory chips. Earlier this month, JEDEC published the final specifications of GDDR7 memory, allowing memory brands to finally launch their next-generation memory chips. Now, Samsung has listed its GDDR7 chips on its website (via @harukaze5719). Samsung has listed two GDDR7 memory chips […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
9 months ago

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