Misc.
27 Samsung products win Good Design Award
Earlier this week, the Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP) announced the winners of the Good Design Awards that were given to “design worthy” products and services. The list mentions two Samsung products to have won the Good Design Gold award that boast high-quality designs whereas the other 25 products received a normal Good [...]
Samsung SNS Intros SHS-3320 Smart Door Lock
Samsung Network services & solutions (SNS), subsidiary of Samsung has announced a new door lock – SHS-3320 for international markets. Samsung says the biggest advantage of this lock is that it supports both mechanical and electronic locking/unlocking and can be installed in the place of existing mechanical locks. Winner of iF, reddot design and [...]
Samsung to setup a new line to produce mobile application processors
Samsung has announced to invest in a new fabrication line in Hwaseong, South Korea. The new fabrication line will produce mobile application processors on 300mm wafer using 20nm and 14nm process, which Samsung expects to cater to the burgeoning demand of the chips. Samsung will invest a total of 2.25 trillion won and expects [...]
SamsungHub.com is now SammyHub.com
Yup, we’ve got a name change. Samsung Hub will now be known as Sammy Hub and as you may’ve noticed you’re already being redirected to the new domain. So what does it change for you as the reader? Well, nothing much except the name, logo and even the commenting system! We’ll still continue to [...]
Samsung announces Earnings Guidance for Q1 2011
Samsung has published the earnings guidance for the just concluded quarter. The figures are based on International Financial Reporting Standards and are provided to give shareholders and consumers an idea of what to expect from the Korean giant. Samsung expects the revenue to fall by 11.6% quarter-on-quarter and about 6.8% year-on-year whereas the operating [...]
Samsung at CTIA 2011
CTIA starts from March 22 in Orlando, Florida and Samsung will showcase a number of devices as well as mobile technologies at the expo. Some of the things that will be exhibited are: Samsung Galaxy S II Samsung Craft (SCH-r900) 4G LTE Phone for Verizon Samsung Infuse 4G Samsung Smart LTE Solution Samsung 8.9-inch [...]
Samsung in talks with ex-BMW designer to design Samsung devices
Samsung has confirmed that they’re in talks with ex-BMW designer, Chris Bangle to design their mobile phones, notebooks and other digital appliances. Bangle responsible for the design of BMW’s 7 Series left the car company in 2009 and was under a contract with a non-compete clause, which expired last month. Samsung says they’re trying [...]
Samsung is 38th on Fortune’s World’s Admired Companies
Fortune Magazine has published the list of world’s most admired companies and Samsung Electronics is ranked 38th on the whole list. Samsung is the only Korean company in Top 50 and has an overall score of 6.16. Industry-wise, Samsung Electronics is placed second in the Electronics industry just after General Electric. Click here for [...]
Samsung Timeline: From Grocery Trading Company to Electronics Giant
Samsung is one of the biggest companies in South Korea contributing about 20 percent of total country’s exports and a decent amount of GDP. But the world’s second largest chaebol by revenue wasn’t the same when it was started in 1938. Reuters has nicely summarized all the important events in Samsung’s history till December [...]
Samsung and IBM team up to research new semiconductor technology
Samsung has collaborated with IBM to research on semiconductor technologies. Under this new collaboration, both the companies will research new materials, transistor structures etc. to enable next-generation process technology that will be used in variety of devices like smartphones to high-end communications infrastructure. The researchers will work at the Semiconductor Research Alliance at the [...]