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  Samsung has announced its top-end all-in-one PC in South Korea. The Series 9 900A7A boasts an asymmetrical premium design and comes with an ultra-slim 27-inch monitor that measures just 11.7mm. The AIO however, is packed with features. It is powered by Intel’s Core i7 2600S processor and features full HD resolution support, 1TB HDD, [...]

  Samsung has started mass production of Embedded Multi-Chip package (eMCP) memory to cater to the rising demand of entry and mid-level smartphones. The new eMCPs use Samsung’s 30nm-based LPDDR2 RAMs that deliver a data transmission speed of 1066Mbps and 20nm-class NAND flash memory. Samsung says the new eMCP solution will help to deliver enhanced [...]

  Samsung has a Chrome OS-powered Chromebook and are now showing an all-in-one-type solution like the new Series 3 Chromebox at the CES 2012. We’re light on the detailed specs but is targeted towards businesses due to its no-frills nature. The 193x193x32.6mm Chromebox runs Chrome OS and is touted to be a “Zero Maintenance” machine [...]

  Samsung has got the approval from the Korean government to setup a NAND flash memory plant in China. The decision came after the Ministry of Knowledge Economy held two meetings to evaluate the company’s technology plans, possible technological leaks and the impact on South Korean economy since Samsung contributes a decent chunk of exports. [...]

  Seagate announced that they’ve completed the acquisition of Samsung’s hard drive business (HDD). The acquisition was announced in April and as per the terms of the agreement, Seagate will acquire Samsung’s assets and infrastructure like M8 production line of 2.5-inch HDDs, senior manager and design-engineering employees from the Korea facility and more. Additionally, Seagate [...]

  Samsung’s semiconductor plant in Austin, Texas recently reached its targeted capacity of 40,000 wafer per month and it seems a sizeable chunk of the chips produced goes to Apple. According to a report by Reuters, Samsung’s 1.6m sq. ft plant produces Apple’s A5 processor used in the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. The A5 [...]

  Samsung is the leading monitor manufacturing company, according to a report from IDC. Samsung’s global market share for monitors stood at 15.5 percent (figure till Q3 2011), making them the number one company since Q3 2006. The report also sheds some light on Samsung’s quarterly figures which were up by 10 percent from Q2 [...]

  Samsung has started mass production of PM830 Series SSDs that support the Mini-Serial ATA (mSATA) interface. Designed for use in ultrabook PCs, the new compact SSDs weigh just 8 grams and measure 50.95 x 30 x 3.8mm. It will be available in storage capacities of 256GB, 128GB, 64GB and 32GB, which will be available [...]

  Samsung has just unveiled a new System-on-chip (SoC) for future mobile devices. It’s the Exynos 5250 that boasts two Cortex-A15 chips clocked at 2GHz. The dual-core Exynos 5250 is created using a 32nm-low power HKMG process and is said to double the performance when compared to a 1.5GHz dual-core SoC based on Cortex-A9. In [...]

  Looks like the first details on Samsung’s Exynos Quad-core System-on-Chip (SoC) have trickled out. Traces of an upcoming Exynos 4412 supporting quad-core have been found on the Kernel Git page. Samsung is apparently testing the chip and has added support for the SoC on the development boards. According to it, Exynos 4412 is very [...]