
Samsung winning Smartphone war
Money rolling in
Samsung Electronics is winning the Smartphone war, despite what you might be reading in the mainstream press.

Globalfoundries 14nm process has volume production levels
Licenced by Samsung
Globalfoundries is now getting volume production from the 14nm FinFET technology it licensed from Samsung.

ASML will flog 15 EUV machines to mysterious "US customer"
Yeah it is probably Intel
ASML, Europe's largest supplier to computer chip makers, will sell 15 of its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) chip etching systems to a "single U.S. customer" who is probably Intel.

Samsung thumps Intel in SSD battle
Catfight on SSDs makes Intel howl
Samsung ruled the global solid state drive (SSD) market last year with a market share double that of its main rival Intel.

Qualcomm to tap Samsung for Snapdragon 820
New sources confirm old rumour
It appears that rumours of Qualcomm’s plans to ditch TSMC in favour of Samsung were spot on.

Apple rumoured to swap Samsung for TSMC
Terrified by Galaxy S6
Fruity cargo cult Apple is so terrified of the success that Samsung has had with its Galaxy S6 it has taken a chip order away from Samsung and given it to TSMC instead.

AMD bald eagle flies for Samsung digital media
Signs following
AMD's Embedded R-Series accelerated processing unit, previously codenamed "Bald Eagle," is powering Samsung's latest set-back-box digital media players.

New Samsung 840 EVO firmware fix coming later this month
To feature "periodic refresh"
While Samsung already patched its 840 EVO firmware earlier last year, it appears that it took a bit longer to fix the read performance degradation problem, but the new fix should be available later this month.

Samsung S6 Edge is a bastard to fix
Battery nightmares
Fixing Samsung's S6 Edge will be a total nightmare—particularly if you need to replace the battery.

Rumour: Nvidia GPUs to use Samsung 14nm FinFET
Tape-out, but more likely bad grapevine
A rumour fresh out of Korea suggests Nvidia might be tapping Samsung as a GPU foundry, but there is a catch.