
Xiaomi will fire up its homemade rifle soon
A mobile processor of its own
Chinese phone maker Xiaomi is about to launch a mobile processor to reduce its dependence on Qualcomm and MediaTek.

IDC predicts VR will rocket this year
Heading for 110 million units by 2020
Tarot readers at IDC have shuffled their deck and reached the conclusion that this year will be the year of VR and AR.

Samsung outsells Apple
Twice as many Smartphones in 2016
Samsung managed to sell twice as many smartphones as Apple in the first quarter of 2016.

Samsung builds app for stupid parents of dumb kids
Don’t stand so close to me
Samsung has developed an app called Safety Screen which forces children to hold their mobile devices at an ideal viewing distance from their eyes.

SK Hynix GDDR5 8Gbit coming in 2H 2016
Samsung already has mass production
Chaps from the memory manufacturers that like to talk to Fudzilla have confirmed that 8Gbit GDDR5 memory will hit volume production in the second half of 2016.

Samsung prepares for memory price war
Wants market share over profits
Samsung Electronics changing its approach to its memory chip business and focus on market share over profit margins and the industry will suffer, according to one analyst.

Galaxy Note 6 gets the Snapdragon 823
Qualcomm’s Unreleased most powerful chip
The Galaxy Note 6 will feature Qualcomm's most powerful mobile chip — the so-far unseen Snapdragon 823.

Samsung grabbing Intel’s coat-tails
Market share gap closing
Samsung is closing in on Intel in the semiconductor sector as its market share increased by 0.9 percent when compared to a year earlier.

ASML starts shipping EUV test machines
Could be used by 2018
Extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is working and could be used in Moore Law saving high-volume chip manufacturing as early as 2018.

Samsung Gear VR now compatible with WebVR API
Open draft standard in progress, but looks promising
On April 1st, Samsung announced it will now support the cutting-edge WebVR API on its Gear VR headset, now giving Samsung customers the ability to browse the web with all the immersion of a full VR experience.