Samsung boss walks free from jail
So no change in Korea’s legal system
Hopes that there might be changes to make South Korea’s legal system fairer have been abandoned after the legal system gave the leader of the Samsung business empire a get out of jail free card.
Qualcomm and Samsung forge new alliance
5G multi year marriage
Not only has Qualcomm just signed a cross license agreement with Samsung that resulted in the halt of Samsung’s legal battle against the company, the two giants have just announced a multi-year strategic relationship agreement. Both Samsung and Qualcomm have problems with Apple and a Broadcom hostile takeover.
Samsung extends cross license with Qualcomm
Enemy of my enemy
Samsung is about to launch the Galaxy S9 and the US and Chinese version will use the Snapdragon 845. Samsung has been fighting Qualcomm with its own Exynos but the global patent cross-license agreement as well as a multi-year strategic relationship agreement sends a strong no-buy message to Broadcom.
Samsung gets into Bitcoin
Will build mining chips
Samsung has seen all those people making a lot of cash out of the bit mining bubble and thought "I'll be 'aving some of that".
Samsung made loads a money
Will split its stock
Samsung announced its first stock split as it expects demand for semiconductors to remain firm in 2018, while it posted record annual profit driven by a memory chip “super-cycle”.
Samsung reveals its full GDDR6 lineup
Coming in capacities of 8Gb and 16Gb
Following the recent announcement that it has started mass production of 16Gb 18Gbps GDDR6 memory modules, Samsung has now revealed a few more details about its full GDDR6 lineup.
Samsung Galaxy S9 Unpacked event scheduled for February 25th
Official invites sent out
Samsung has officially sent out invites for its next Unpacked event scheduled for February 25th, just a day before the Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, where the company is expected to unveil its newest flagship, the Galaxy S9.
Samsung 860 EVO SSD series shows up on its site
Temporarily
After the 860 Pro SSD was spotted on Samsung's site, yet another new SSD line has leaked from the same source, the Samsung 860 EVO.
Samsung starts mass production of 16Gb GDDR6 chips
Based on 10nm-class manufacturing process
Samsung has announced that it has started mass production of 16Gb GDDR6 memory chips, offering twice the speed and density levels compared to currently available GDDR5 memory chips.
Samsung unveils its mid-range Exynos 7872 SoC
14nm SoC with hexa-core Cortex-A73 and Cortex-A53 CPU cores
Samsung announced its newest SoC built on 14nm FinFET manufacturing process and aimed at mid-range devices, the Exynos 7872 SoC.