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Samsung’s HBM3 chips reportedly fail to pass Nvidia tests due to heat issues

Samsung's high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips have reportedly failed Nvidia's tests due to heat and power consumption issues. These HBM3 chips were tested for use inside Nvidia's AI accelerators. Their failure has raised considerable doubts regarding their performance. Samsung's HBM3 chips continue to fail Nvidia's tests According to an exclusive report from Reuters, Samsung's HBM3 chips […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
7 months ago

Qualcomm and Microsoft exclusivity deal ending soon, will open opportunities for Samsung

It was reported a few months ago that Samsung is working on more powerful Exynos processors for laptops and Chromebooks. While Chromebooks use a variety of ARM-based processors from multiple chipset vendors, ARM-based Windows laptops only feature Qualcomm chipsets, and there could be a reason for that. According to a report from XDA Developers, Microsoft and […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
3 years ago

Galaxy S21 with Qualcomm chip performs way better than Pixel 6 in 5G tests

Google's newest smartphones—Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro—use the company's first-generation Tensor processing chipset. However, not all parts of the chipset are made in-house. For instance, Tensor uses ARM's stock CPU and GPU cores and Samsung's Exynos 5G modem. It was recently found that the US variant of Galaxy S21 performs way better than the […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
3 years ago

Samsung’s memory products get the Carbon Trust rating for reducing CO2

Samsung has announced that five of its memory products have received global recognition from Carbon Trust for reducing carbon emissions. 20 other memory products and four automotive LED packages from the South Korean firm have received the carbon footprint certification. The Portable SSD T7 (1TB), EVO Select (128GB) MicroSD cards, GDDR6 (8GB) VRAM, HBM2E (8GB) […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
3 years ago

Samsung’s Q2 2021 profit was the highest in three years, thanks to strong chip sales

Three weeks after unveiling its earnings expectations, Samsung has announced its final Q2 2021 numbers. The company said that its revenue increased 20%, and the operating profit increased 54% compared to Q2 2020. The company's operating profit during the second quarter was the highest over the past three years, thanks to strong chip and memory […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
3 years ago

EU could give Samsung billions in aid to help it manufacture chips

The demand for advanced chips is only going to increase as our reliance on modern devices increases. The world is already witnessing a severe global shortage of ships. The impact is felt by a wide variety of industries. Even car manufacturers are having to delay their vehicles because they can't secure enough chips. There are […]

By Adnan Farooqui
4 years ago

Did Samsung outsmart Arizona by skipping its 200$ million land auction?

You know what they say: never count your semiconductor manufacturers before they hatch… or something along those lines. What's way more certain is that the state of Arizona might have just missed out on one of its most lucrative land sales in recent memory. The one that was repeatedly associated with Samsung's well-established interest in […]

By Dominik Bosnjak
4 years ago

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