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1. Innolux becomes new LCD giant

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... chairman of massive manufacturer Hon Hai (Foxconn). At stake is the lucrative Chinese market for LCD TVs and monitors - a market keenly coveted by the Korean players in the field, Samsung and LG Display. ...

2. 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 ...

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. First real Windows Mobile 6.5 spotted in Lisbon

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Tuesday, 06 October 2009

   ... of different OS. Which is another reason why it has beaten HTC and Samsung to the jump, according to ZTE head honcho, He Shiyou. TG Daily still isn't sure it really likes touchscreen UIs, though, even ...

5. Shortages continue on hectares of LCD glass

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 15 July 2009

   ... of glass makers are suppliers to the TFT LCD panel makers with Corning and a JV called Samsung Corning Precision (SCP) ruling the roost, as the following Displaysearch table shows.  ...

6. Expect lots of OLED TVs by Yuletide

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Tuesday, 14 July 2009

   ... reason for that is because Samsung, Sony and Ericsson and Nokia pushed AMOLED mobile phones for all they worth in the first half of this year, with over 10 models released so far. Jennifer Colegrove, ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. AMD’s Globalfoundries to ramp with 22 nm chips

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 05 May 2009

   ... 6-9 months. And that achievement will be critical for the company to attract customers that compete with Intel. As the construction of new fabs will get more expensive (already today, only Intel and Samsung ...

10. The next iPhone looms on the horizon

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 25 March 2009

    ... Apple's PA Semi-acquired engineering talent (led by IBM's Mark Papermaster) should design this SoC based on the latest ARM CPU and Imagination's PowerVR SGX543 multi-core GPU. At the same time, Samsung ...

11. Fusion-io announces fastest 640 GB server SSD, 1.3 TB version soon

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 13 March 2009

    ... one which fits an PCI-e 1.0 x8 slot and one which plugs into a PCI-e 2.0 x4 slot. The SSD is manufactured using Samsung flash memory and can be purchased in 160GB, 320GB, and 640GB capacities beginning ...

12. Cell phone battles in Barcelona

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 17 February 2009

    ... Samsung, Sony, Ericsson, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telenor, Telstra, T-Mobile, and Vodafone all agreed to a common standard based on the USB interface and enforced by 2012 (I would've hoped for yesterday). The ...

13. Taking SSDs beyond half a terabyte: Sandisk's 32 nm flash

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 February 2009

    ... GB for the first time.Samsung especially highlighted the benefits of such a small chip for microSD cards that are typically used as storage expansion in cellphones, as it provides twice the capacity of ...

14. The problem with 3D: Where it works and where it does not

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 04 February 2009

    ... In addition, you have to use a special monitor and only two of those exist - both in 22" with one coming from Samsung and the other from Viewsonic. For someone who currently uses a 19" or 22" monitor, ...

15. 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. ...

16. Where are the WOW! products?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Sunday, 18 January 2009

    ... - it‘s all the same. It seems like the only truly revolutionary ideas we even see any more come from infomercials. Why don't we have corporate monsters like Intel, Google, IBM and Samsung, who ...

17. Big News Around CES That Got Little Coverage

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Wednesday, 14 January 2009

    ... Minds want to know. With All the Focus on Monitors and 3D Only 2 Actually Would Work There was a lot of focus on 3D TV and Games but only two monitors , one from Samsung and one from Viewsonic (both ...

18. UPDATED: Nvidia takes gaming into full-3D with stereoscopic glasses

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 08 January 2009

    ... the gaming, photo and movie industry can now go fully 3D out of the box with little or no modification. The system works with "the new pure Samsung and ViewSonic 120 Hz LCD monitors, Mitsubishi DLP ...

19. Dell’s super-thin Adamo notebook: Displayport, Blu-ray and $3000

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 26 December 2008

    ... been ordering ultra-thin (and expensive) 3.5 mm (0.14”) panels from Samsung, which could drop the thickness of the Macbook Air’s lid (4.1 mm or 0.16”). There is virtually no information on the standard ...

20. 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 ...

21. DisplayPort and HDCP in your Mac: What you need to know

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 07 December 2008

    ... sell DP video cards and monitors. HP, Philips, Samsung, Lenovo, Nvidia, Intel, Microsoft and other key IT players have pledged to support DP as well. Smaller than DVI or HDMI, the DP interface is easy ...

22. 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 ...

23. 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 ...

24. Toshiba rolls out iPod/Zune hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 09 September 2008

    ... will be exceeding the storage space of 1.8” for the first time later this year. Samsung will be rolling out a 256 GB version of its MLC SSD in Q4, which, however, is likely to be at least 5-10 times as ...

25. Samsung to acquire Sandisk?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 05 September 2008

      Samsung is reportedly aiming to increase its share of the global flash business by acquiring Sandisk, the world’s largest flash memory card vendor. Following an article published by a Korean website, ...

26. Ready for the mainstream? Samsung announces SSDs for low-cost PCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 27 August 2008

      It appears that Samsung is following through with its strategy to drive SSD-based mass-storage deep into the mainstream PC market late this year. “High-performance, Low-density SATA II SSDs for ...

27. Intel tests mass storage waters with new SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 August 2008

    ... competitive, especially as market leader Samsung is accelerating the pace. Intel will begin offering SSDs with up to 80 GB capacity in the fourth quarter, while up to 160 GB will become available in ...

28. Reports of failing iPhone 3G reception, Apple remains quiet

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 14 August 2008

    ... a bit in the past with Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson and Nokia. These are "completely normal childhood illnesses," especially in the case of a large volume production. Claes Beckman, professor of microwave ...

29. Analysis: Apple’s big iPhone sales weekend

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 15 July 2008

    ... of users were upgrading from the original model and 39% were PC users (25% last year). Customers are mostly upgrading from Motorola (20% this year, 35% last year) and Samsung (13% this year, 9% last year), ...

30. Samsung puts 128 GB SSDs into mass-production

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 08 July 2008

      Samsung today said that it has begun mass producing 1.8” and 2.5” multi-level cell (MLC)-based solid state drives (SSD) with 64 and 128 GB storage capacity. Samsung also promises “more attractive” ...

31. Symbian throws down the gauntlet at Android

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 24 June 2008

    ... (e.g., Motorola, Sony Ericson and its UIQ platform, NTT Docomo and its MOAP platform, Samsung, LG, AT&T, Vodafone, TI, STMicroelectronics). The initial product offered by the foundation will be the ...

32. Sapphire joins the 2160p LCD TV party

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 06 June 2008

    ... the $40,000 mark, while you should count on spending six figures on Samsung’s 82” model, if the company decides to put it out on the market this year.   Sapphire also had its traditional batch of ...

33. The five big technology trends of 2008

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Friday, 06 June 2008

    ... like the second generation iPhone, Samsung Instinct as well as the upcoming RIM Bold and Thunder are redefining what can be done on a phone. AMD (graphics), Intel (battery life), and VIA (price) are ...

34. Samsung to produce 15.6" notebook panels

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 04 June 2008

    Samsung Electronics has decided to join the production of 15.6" notebook panels with mass production to start in November, according to industry sources. Panels of 15.6" in size have an advantage ...

35. Samsung announces 256 GB, 200 MB/s solid state disk drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 25 May 2008

      Samsung claims to have developed the world’s fastest solid state disk (SSD) drive, offering a blazing 200 MB/s data read rate – about the performance of fastest hard drives money can buy today. ...

36. Samsung demos 82” 2160p HDTV

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sunday, 18 May 2008

      Samsung draws attention at this year’s Society for Information Display (SID) International Symposium with a 82” Quad HDTV that offers four times the resolution of today’s 1080p high definition ...

37. Samsung pitches 240 Hz LCD technology

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 14 May 2008

      Samsung said it will demonstrate a new LCD technology at the upcoming SID 2008 International Symposium that will double the maximum image refresh rate of current LCD panels. The manufacturer believes ...

38. Samsung claims brightest 46" LCD panel for public displays

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 08 May 2008

    Intent on producing the most innovative technology for digital information displays (DIDs), Samsung Electronics has announced that it has begun mass producing a 46" digital signage panel which the ...

39. 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 ...

40. Samsung SDI says its AMOLED production to reach economies of scale in 2009

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 22 April 2008

    ... – will adopt AMOLED panels in 2009, and in 2010, flexible display applications will also adopt AMOLED panels as well, according to Woo-Jong Lee, vice president, mobile display marketing team, Samsung SDI. ...

41. IBM finds more performance and less power in 32 nm chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 14 April 2008

    ... process at its 300 mm semiconductor fabrication facility in East Fishkill, New York. With first silicon on hand, the company and its partners Chartered, Freescale, Infineon, Samsung, STMicroelectronics ...

42. Consumers largely willing to pay higher prices for Blu-ray

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 09 April 2008

    ... Blu-ray players, the Sony BDP-S300 and the Samsung BD-P1400, and look at how many units have been sold at various price levels. This chart shows data for the Sony BDP-S300 player.  The line represents ...

43. Will we ever see an iPhone killer?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 03 April 2008

    ... goal: RIM with its BlackBerry 9000, Samsung with its Instinct phone and SonyEricsson with the Xperia. There is a wildcard in this game, which has the potential to make a strong debut – Garmin’s Nuvifone. ...

44. Micron, Samsung, Qimonda announce DDR3 notebook memory

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 02 April 2008

    Micron, Samsung and Qimonda said that Intel has validated their DDR3 SO-DIMMs for the upcoming Centrino 2 platform, previously code-named Montevina. It appears that all three companies have been sampling ...

45. 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 ...

46. Slap down the cash and grab a phone in Thailand

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 25 March 2008

    ... Here cash is king and I’ve just snagged a nice Samsung E250 phone, case and SIM card for a mere $138.  But even more amazing is the time it took – or, more accurately, didn’t take. Opinion – American ...

47. Samsung puts 100 MB/s SSDs into mass production

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 15 February 2008

    Samsung said it has begun mass producing 64 GB solid state disk drives (SSDs) with a 3 Gb/s SATA II interface. Seoul (Korea) – Samsung said it has begun mass producing 64 GB solid state disk drives ...

48. HD DVD: Time to quit?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Monday, 11 February 2008

    ... Not really a bad idea considering the fact that Toshiba was out with players months before the first (Samsung) Blu-ray player became available, which was offered for the ridiculous price of $999 initially. ...

49. When a 28% revenue decline is actually good news, sorta

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 04 February 2008

    ... seen double-digit declines in sales. Market leader Samsung saw its DRAM revenues retreat by more than $1 billion. El Segundo (CA) – iSuppli has released its revenue estimates for the DRAM industry ...

50. Update: Blu-ray and HD DVD support demystified

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 31 January 2008

    ... market exposure and marketing potential. Here is how the CE player support looks today (U.S.):   * - LG's only high-def player is a combo Blu-ray/HD DVD device.  Samsung has a dual format ...