
Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express gets wide acceptance
Intel, AMD, Arm, TSMC, and Samsung sign up
Intel, AMD, Arm, TSMC, and Samsung have signed up to a Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) consortium.

Samsung botched encryption
From the 2017 Galaxy S8 on up to last year's Galaxy S21
Samsung apparently shipped more than 100 million of its smartphones with the encryption borked.

Qualcomm walks away from Samsung
Yield rate too low
Qualcomm has apparently walked away from Samsung for its 4nm process chips because the outfit’s yields were too low.

Samsung schedules its MWC 2022 event for February 27th
To "discover a new era of connected mobile devices"
With the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022 opening its doors on February 28th in Barcelona, it was mater of time before big players start to announce their own events, and, Samsung will be live-streaming its own a day before the MWC, on February 27th.

Samsung’s metaverse launch hit problems
Future not here yet
Samsung’s metaverse launch event for its new Galaxy smartphones hit many snags indicating that the tech is not ready for the maintime yet.

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is the new flagship
Galaxy Note successor with the S Pen
In addition to new Galaxy Tab S8 tablets, as well as the Galaxy S22 and the Galaxy S22+ smartphones, Samsung has unveiled its newest flagship Galaxy S22 Ultra at the Galaxy Unpacked February 2022 event, the one that is a direct successor of the Galaxy Note series.

Samsung unveils Galaxy S22 and Galaxy S22+ smartphones
6.1-inch and 6.6-inch smartphones with the same premium design
Samsung has officially unveiled its Galaxy S22 series smartphones at the Galaxy Unpacked February 2022 event, including the Galaxy S22, the Galaxy S22+, as well as the Galaxy S22 Ultra flagship, which is a direct successor of the Galaxy Note series.

Tablet market grows
Apple still in charge
Worldwide tablet shipments rose to 168.8 million last year, up about five million from 2020 shipments.

Smartphone shipments down in the last quarter
Samsung is the King of the Smartphones
Companies shipped 1.35 billion smartphones in 2021, a 5.7 per cent increase over the previous year, market researcher IDC said Thursday. However, supply chain issues meant that fewer phones were shipped in the fourth quarter of 2021 than in the same period a year earlier.

Samsung aiming for dominance with 5G
Memory chips rebounded
Samsung aims to win a bigger share of the smartphone market this year with more 5G-capable models and pointed to a price rebound for its flagship memory chips as early as the first half.