Samsung beats Chipzilla up

Figures just in from the Gartner Group showed that Samsung was the leader in chip sales in 2017.

Secured orders from 40 big customers

TSMC is set to take Samsung to the cleaners this year in the race to 7nm process volume production.

Samsung can’t churn out 7nm chips in 2018

TSMC will nick some of Qualcomm modem chip and core processor orders from its biggest rival Samsung Electronics next year.

Off to suppliers with its shopping trolley

Word on the street is that buyers for Samsung have been seen pushing a shopping trolley between vendors as they gather parts for the next Galaxy S9 series.

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Honor - Huawei's mobile phone company - held a massive event in the City of London yesterday and vowed to take on giants Samsung and Apple and beat them at their own game.

SVP Alex Katouzian shows the chip

Qualcomm has just wrapped up the second Snapdragon technology event keynote and a small part of the keynote was the three year effort called the Snapdragon 845.

li-ion with great balls of fire

Samsung’s Advanced Institute of Technology has come up with another use for graphene balls – giving a coat for use inside a regular li-ion cell.

Switching from 10nm LPE to 10nm LPP

Samsung has announced that it has geared up into mass production of its 2nd generation 10nm FinFET manufacturing process technology, moving from 10nm LPE (Low Power Early) to 10nm LPP (Low Power Plus).

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Despite rumours, it looks like Samsung Electronics is going to keep using heat pipes in its designs.

Overall consumer sales decrease in Europe

A report from market research company IDC said that sales of Samsung tablets exceeded Apple machines during the third calendar quarter of 2017.