Samsung to release 14nm octa, production underway
Published in News


Eight cores of terror 

Samsung has announced an updated version of its Exynos 7 Octa processor. Last year it announced a 64-bit, ARMv8 processor based on a 20nm design, but these new chips will be 14nm processors.

Galaxy 6 Exynos 7420 is 14nm SoC
Published in Mobiles
Thursday, 12 February 2015 08:28

Galaxy 6 Exynos 7420 is 14nm SoC


Beats Intel and Apple 

Fudzilla has found out that the Samsung Galaxy S6 will be one of the first devices to boast a non-Intel chip build around a 14nm process.

Samsung ePoP memory enters mass production
Published in Cloud
Thursday, 05 February 2015 07:56

Samsung ePoP memory enters mass production


Reduces footprint, boosts efficiency

Samsung has announced that it is now mass producing Embedded Package on Package (ePoP) memory, which greatly increases density and efficiency.

Nvidia joins Apple and Qualcomm on Samsung's 14nm node
Published in PC Hardware


Getting crowded, isn't it?

Nvidia appears to be the latest chip designer to use Samsung’s and GlobalFoundries’ 14nm node. The company won’t be alone, as the same node will be used by Apple, Qualcomm, AMD and of course Samsung.

Bloomberg: Samsung drops Snapdragon 810 from Galaxy S6
Published in Mobiles


Tried it, didn’t like it, will use its own SoC instead


Samsung appears to have ditched Qualcomm for the upcoming Galaxy S flagship. According to Bloomberg, the company will use its own silicon instead.

Samsung starts mass producing 8 Gb GDDR5
Published in Graphics
Friday, 16 January 2015 10:13

Samsung starts mass producing 8 Gb GDDR5


16GB+ graphic cards possible 


Samsung has announced that is has started the mass production of its 8 Gb GDDR5 chips in 20nm.

Samsung 850 EVO spotted at CES 2015 in mSATA and M.2 form-factors
Published in Cloud


Still no availability date

While the 2.5-inch form-factor 850 EVO SSD from Samsung is already available and quite popular, it appears that Samsung is also working on a couple of other form-factors, including mSATA and M.2, based on the same design.

Samsung officially unveils metal unibody Galaxy A7
Published in Mobiles


With 64-bit Snapdragon 615 or 32-bit Exynos 5430

Samsung has now finally and officially unveiled its Galaxy A7 which comes with 6.3mm thick metal unibody and will be available in two different versions, with a 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 SoC or a 32-bit Exynos 5430 SoC.

Galaxy 4 Note is the first Snapdragon 810 phone
Published in Mobiles


Carrier aggregation gets you 300Mbps

The Galaxy Note 4 is Samsung’s latest flagship phablet and it comes in two flavours, one of which offers the fastest mobile broadband around.

Samsung starts manufacturing LPDDR4 4GB
Published in Cloud
Wednesday, 24 December 2014 17:13

Samsung starts manufacturing LPDDR4 4GB


64-bit phones watch out

Samsung has started mass producing LPDDR4 memory and is hoping to sell the chips for 2015 high-end phones. These are 20nm memory chips and LPDDR4 will be supported by some SoCs.