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1. Smartphone market: Android and iPhone continue to grow

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Thursday, 05 November 2009

   ... the release of Android based handsets from several different OEMs, most recently Motorola, but also Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson, the buzz surrounding Android OS is reaching critical mass,” said William ...

2. Intel, ASML bring cheer to the chip market

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 14 October 2009

   ... a year back, its profitability demonstrates that investment in capital equipment is showing signs of a resurgence. ASML makes lithography equipment used by large companies in their fabs and numbers Samsung, ...

3. Windows 6.5: Living in a Post iPhone World is a Bitch

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 06 October 2009

   ... however, there is no real loyalty; people may buy a Motorola one year and a Samsung the next because of price, plan, and appearance.   These people also don’t like to relearn things so if these ...

4. DDR3 memory shortage set to end

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 22 September 2009

   Samsung has decided to end the current shortage of DDR3 chips by maxing out its production. Samsung has decided to end the current shortage of DDR3 chips by maxing out its production. Oh-Hyun Kwon, ...

5. Apple flash flood leaves NAND drought for others

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Sunday, 13 September 2009

   ... other players in the lurch with severe shortages in store. So says Taiwanese wire Digitimes, claiming that major manufacturers including Samsung, Micron, Toshiba and Hynix are favoring Apple over other ...

6. ARM joins body with serial legs

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 17 August 2009

   ... Technology)  Consortium as a promoter member. It joins Hynix, LG Electronics, Samsung and Silicon Image and will help promote SPMT for broad market adoption as an industry standard. SPMT allows ...

7. IBM sued over DRAM patents

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 17 July 2009

   ... Oki, Panasonic, Winbond, Sony, Samsung, Hynix, TSMC, Infineon, ProMOS, Powerchip and Micron. ...

8. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 19 June 2009

   ... size power strip (not included) as well as store away your adapters, or hang a power squid. Samsung Impression for AT&T: This metallic blue device touts the nation’s first commercially available AMOLED ...

9. Moore’s Law to die at 18 nm, analysts predict

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 16 June 2009

   ... only companies such as Intel and Samsung as well as contract chip makers such as Globalfoundries, Chartered or TSMC to operate their own fabs.       Eventually, Moore’s Law will ...

10. Global teen survey shows Nokia's mobile lead falling

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 02 June 2009

    ... favorite global brand, number one in Canada and Brazil, and number two in seven other countries. This year the company doesn't make the top five. Samsung, LG and Apple are all chasing Nokia and Sony ...

11. Samsung, Hynix, Silicon Image sign up to new DRAM standard

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 18 May 2009

    A consortium has formed to promote a memory specification for DRAM including two of the bigger DRAM firms, Hynix and Samsung along with LG Electronics and Silicon Image. A consortium has formed to promote ...

12. Rambus liberated by the Feds

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 14 May 2009

    ... with Korean companies Hynix and Samsung, over the matter of royalties. But at least America is finally off Rambus' back. Rambus' share price stood at $12.39 on NASDAD, way way down from the dreamy days ...

13. NAND memory goes Flash, bang, wallop

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 12 May 2009

    ... price increased by 18 percent during the quarter, with shipments falling by 17 percent during the same period. Samsung remains the number one manufacturer, with sales worth $750 million and an estimated ...

14. Vizio takes back #1 spot in LCD TV sales

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 08 May 2009

    Vizio, which has built its LCD TV business on aggressively priced LCD TVs, is reaping the fruits of its efforts: According to iSuppli, the company has surpassed Samsung in terms of market share once ...

15. Renesas and NEC Electronics to merge

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 27 April 2009

    ... of late. A combined company would be third behind Intel and Samsung, and will corner the market in microcontrollers. Intel's speciality is microprocessors, and whenever you remember Samsung you think ...

16. Analyst gets excited about Apple, raises target price by 27%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 13 April 2009

    ... iPhones so far and has placed orders for “100 million units of 8-gigabit and 16-gigabit NAND flash chips, with the bulk of its order coming from its main iPhone chip supplier, Samsung.” It seems that a ...

17. Taiwanese government to form new Taiwan Memory Company

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 19 February 2009

    ... one stand-alone player, Samsung and their 25.5% market share. The creation of this new company is Taiwan's attempt to rescue its ailing DRAM makers. Additional companies previously mentioned for bailout ...

18. DRAM vendor revenue down 40%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 19 February 2009

    ... reported, Samsung still held the #1 spot in the DRAM ranking, but was hit with a 43.1% DRAM revenue decline, according to DRAMeXchange. Hynix saw its sales drop by 38.6%. Taiwanese vendors PSC and Promos ...

19. Global DRAM production capacity cut by 32%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 10 February 2009

    ... yesterday, some DRAM makers recorded revenue drops of up to 75% during the fourth quarter of 2008. Even market leader Samsung saw its sales decrease by more than 38% and Micron’s decline of 16% is currently ...

20. DRAM makers feel the pain – revenue drops up to 75%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 09 February 2009

    ... Samsung, which controls 30% of the market, isn’t immune to this situation and lost almost 40%.  Chicago (IL) – By now we all know that the economy isn’t in a particular upbeat mood and it is ...

21. Samsung hints to DDR4 with first validated 40 nm DRAM

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 04 February 2009

      Samsung today announced that it has developed and validated its first 40 nm DRAM chip, which are expected to consume 30% less power than current 50nm modules, and is an important step toward DDR4 development. ...

22. Samsung sets the stage for 32 GB DRAM modules

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 29 January 2009

      Samsung said it has developed the world’s first 4 Gb DDR3 DRAM chip, enabling the company to double the maximum capacity of DRAM modules available today. Seoul (Korea) – Samsung said it has developed ...

23. Samsung reduces capital expenditure by 50% in 2009

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 06 January 2009

    Taipei (Taiwan) - DigiTimes is reporting Samsung has reduced its capital expenditures for 2009 by 50%, down to $2 billion. While this gloomy change in plans is the result of a depressed global economy, ...

24. Samsung to increase DRAM quotes

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 31 December 2008

    With Samsung Electronics reducing its supply, contract quotes for some NAND flash segments have increased significantly in the second half of December. The Korean chipmaker now plans to raise DRAM ...

25. DRAM makers cut 2009 capex on dim outlook

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Monday, 29 December 2008

    ... 2009. Meanwhile, market watchers believe that Samsung Electronics, Elpida Memory, Nanya Technology, Inotera Memories and ProMOS Technologies will also announced capex reductions for the coming year.  ...

26. DigiTimes: Vista has hurt the DRAM industry

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Monday, 29 December 2008

    An oversupply looms above the DRAM industry following "overambitious expansion plans to support Windows Vista," Hynix had increased capacity 159%, Inotera by 112%, Elpida by 103% and Samsung by 86% to ...

27. Apple gets official acceleration spec for Snow Leopard

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 08 December 2008

    ... AMD, ARM, Barco, Broadcom, Codeplay, Electronic Arts, Ericsson, Freescale, HI, IBM, Intel, Imagination Technologies, Motorola, Nokia, Nvidia, QNX, RapidMind, Samsung and Texas Instruments.  “We ...

28. Intel, Micron go after Samsung with 34 nm flash

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 24 November 2008

    ... has developed a 34 nm process which allows the companies to produce the currently smallest NAND flash chips and challenge the dominance of the two leading manufacturers, Toshiba and Samsung. Boise ...

29. Samsung preps 16 GB memory modules

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 28 September 2008

      Samsung said it has begun sampling 50 nm DDR3 devices, enabling more power efficient memory modules with up to 16 GB  capacity. Seoul (South Korea) – Samsung said it has begun sampling 50 nm ...

30. Kids using mobile phones are five times more likely to get cancer – study

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 22 September 2008

      Mobile phone usage can dramatically increase the risk of cancer in children and young adults.   According to a new study by Professor Lennart Hardell from the University Hospital in ...

31. 5 reasons why Apple should build its own iPhone SoC (and 5 why it won't last)

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 19 September 2008

    ...  2. Cheaper gadgets. Apple may put custom processor and graphic cores, memory, sound, and interfacing components on a single die and outsource the manufacturing to Samsung. Cost-wise, this strategy beats ...

32. Bargain hunting: Samsung offers $5.8 billion for Sandisk

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 16 September 2008

      Bad times offer great opportunities for some and that may be especially the case for Samsung, who launched a hostile bid to take over flash memory card maker Sandisk. The bid represents at 73% ...

33. RIM + Slacker = Real iPhone threat

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Friday, 12 September 2008

    ... competing products that have come to market over the last few months.   The best until recently were the LG Dare and the Samsung Instinct.   While I don’t know anyone who uses the Dare, ...

34. Why the SSD will kill the HDD

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 11 September 2008

      Opinion – The days of the hard drive are numbered. I recently chatted with Samsung on their opinion of the state solid state disk drive (SSD) market and while Samsung seems to be very careful ...

35. Seven of the ten largest DRAM manufacturers saw revenue declines in Q2

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 08 August 2008

    ... fact that iSuppli believes that the market bottomed out in Q2 and that top-tier memory manufacturers were able to return to profitability after several month of losses.      Samsung ...

36. TSMC leads growth among top 20 semiconductor suppliers in H1

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 05 August 2008

    ... Nanya, etc.) no longer part of the top 20 ranking. Although the top four ranked companies remained the same from last year in the rankings – Intel, Samsung, Texas Instruments, Toshiba – it was fifth ranked ...

37. Intel to lose its lead in chip manufacturing tech in 2009, sort of

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 30 July 2008

    ... develop 45 nm and 40 nm processes at the same time. The next step for TSMC is either 32 nm or 30 nm - or below. Samsung is investing heavily in 30 nm, but that is for DRAM only. Intel has 32 nm CPUs still ...

38. InSpectrum: Defective Samsung chips, but not 80 million of them

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 24 June 2008

    ... a batch of 80 million (in 1Gb equivalent) 68nm-made DRAM chips from Samsung Electronics were defective, as such a volume would be sure to affect both DRAM markets in a noticeable manner. Given that a batch ...

39. Why the iPhone 3G is a gold mine for Apple, even at $199

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 19 June 2008

    ... at launch. Now we are looking at a number closer to $100, Portelligent claims. EETimes said that Infineon and Samsung are still the two primary chip suppliers for the iPhone 3G. Will Strauss, principal ...

40. Samsung said to have large batch of defective 68nm DRAM chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 18 June 2008

    Following the speculated DRAM production issues on 66nm process node at Hynix Semiconductor, rival Samsung Electronics is also said to have a large batch of DRAM chips being rejected by customers. ...

41. Blu-ray player prices showing signs of downward trend

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 06 June 2008

    ... players, this may be the very first time we could describe Blu-ray as becoming affordable. Amazon.com made headlines earlier today with a $300 Blu-ray player . The Samsung BD-P1400 is offered by the online ...

42. ASUS predicts the need for five billion cheap PCs by 2011

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    Tuesday, 03 June 2008

    Taipei (TW) – During annual DRAM eXchange conference, Samsung Ho (General Manager of ASUS EPC division) held a presentation that brought some interesting figures to limelight. He argued the case of ...

43. Samsung continues to lead in NAND flash market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 07 May 2008

    Samsung Electronics sold $12.85 billion worth of NAND flash in the first quarter 2008, down 18.7% from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to data compiled by DRAMeXchange. Although Samsung maintained ...

44. Intel to begin chip production on 450 mm wafers in 2012

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 05 May 2008

      Intel today said that it has reached an agreement with Samsung and TSMC to enable a 450 mm wafer-based chip production by 2012. Like the transition to 300 mm, which Intel introduced with its 130 ...

45. No one won DRAM 'chicken' game in Q1 08, says iSuppli

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 02 May 2008

    In the multi-billion DRAM industry, market leader Samsung Electronics continues to play a high-stakes game of chicken, massively boosting its production even as its competitors pull back amid weak ...

46. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    ... let’s take a brief look where the processor actually comes from. Atom, who are you? The UMPC disaster (Intel actually disagrees that the UMPC platform was a failure, since vendors such as Samsung were ...

47. Deep-pocketed DRAM module makers aggressively building inventory

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    ... Corporation (PSC) and Samsung Electronics to increase its supply volume, according to industry sources. More here at Digitimes.  ...

48. Pricewatch: HD DVD in free fall, Blu-ray continues upward trend

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 03 March 2008

    ... no direct impact of the HD DVD shutdown, with prices remaining stable and trending lightly upward. Sharp’s BD-HP20U, Sony’s BDP-S300, Panasonic’s DMP-BD30K as well as Samsung’s BD-P1000, which is not listed ...

49. The cost of Ford’s Sync? $30. Its value? Priceless.

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 22 February 2008

    ... heart of the system is a Freescale applicatiosn processor ($10.80), a Freescale microcontroller ($5), 256 MB SDRAM from Micron ($4.80), 2 Gb flash memory from Samsung ($3.80), a Cambridge Bluetooth silicon ...

50. Micron and Samsung said to shift focus to European DRAM market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 21 February 2008

    In light of weak demand in the US consumer market amid the sub-prime crisis, leading DRAM makers, including Micron Technology and Samsung Electronics, are said will shift their marketing focus to European ...