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Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge review: The Galaxy S6 2.0
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2016-03-15 00:12
The Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are finally here. Samsung's newest flagships stick pretty close to the Galaxy S6 formula, but they add a brand new SoC—the Snapdragon 820—and bring back some of the features the Galaxy S6 missed out on.
Samsung’s Android flagships get February security update
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2016-02-29 00:52
Samsung has begun rolling out Android’s February security update for all of its recent flagships. The release is currently reaching unlocked units in most markets, and should be available to those branded by carriers soon.
The updates are available for the Galaxy S5, Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 edge, Galaxy S6 edge+, Galaxy Note 4, and Galaxy Note 5, according to SamMobile — and they’re currently rolling out in markets throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas.
Samsung Electronics to start making new chips for AMD in 2016
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2015-12-22 10:43
Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will start making new chips for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Inc next year, South Korea's Electronic Times reported on Tuesday citing unnamed sources.
The paper said Samsung's foundry business and Globalfoundries will jointly start producing a central processing chip as well as a graphics processing chip for AMD next year using their 14-nanometre technology.
New Samsung patent shows off a phone that unfolds into a tablet
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2015-12-01 01:01
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has just published an application from Samsung (via 9to5Mac) that attempts to patent a foldable electronic device. It’s likely that one of the examples depicted in the application represents the company’s upcoming foldable smartphone, dubbed Project Valley.
Samsung mass produces 128 gigabyte DRAM
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2015-11-27 00:58
South Korean technology giant Samsung said it has started mass production of 128 gigabyte DDR4 DRAM modules.
The modules are aimed at enterprise servers and for data centres.
Samsung said the modules have the largest capacity and the best energy efficiency of any other modules but also operate at high speed. The modules include 144 DDR4 chip arranged into 36 four gigabyte packages using 20 nanometre process technology.
