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Samsung Display Files Injunction Against LG Display For OLED Tech Leak
If you recollect, in July Samsung Display accused LG Display to have facilitated in the OLED technology leak. Now Samsung Display has filed an injunction request against the LG subsidiary, according to a report on Yonhap News. Samsung submitted documents relating to the OLED technology in the Seoul Central District Court and demands 1 [...]
Samsung Will Invest In ASML To Fuel Research On Next-Gen Lithography Tech
Netherlands-based ASML has confirmed that Samsung Electronics will invest and be a part of its Customer Co-Investment Program for Innovation to enable R&D of the next-generation lithography technologies. As part of the program, Samsung will contribute EUR 276 million over the next five years and will also pick up a 3 percent stake in [...]
Samsung, Nokia and Others Form An Alliance To Improve Mobile Indoor Positioning
Samsung, Nokia, Sony Mobile and 19 other companies have collaborated to innovate and improve accuracy of indoor positioning on mobile devices. The alliance is known as In-Location will develop solutions that will improve the accuracy of positioning indoors on standards based on Bluetooth 4.0 low-energy and Wi-Fi, both of which are ubiquitous in today’s [...]
Samsung to buy CSR’s Mobile Connectivity and Location Tech for $310m
Samsung today confirmed to buy UK-based CSR mobile connectivity and location technology along with transfer of certain relevant patents and over 300 employees. Samsung will acquire these assets for a cash consideration of $310 million and will invest $34 million in CSR’s equity stake, representing about 4.9 percent share. Samsung will gain rights to [...]
Samsung wants LG to admit to alleged OLED tech leak
Samsung Mobile Display has asked LG Display to confess to have facilitated an OLED technology leak after 11 employees from SMD and LG Display were indicted for leaking the technology from Samsung. Samsung says the leak will make them lose “trillions of won” and accused LG Display of orchestrating the leak at the corporate [...]
Israeli firm leaks Samsung’s AMOLED display tech
A firm has reportedly leaked key display technologies used by Samsung Mobile Display and LG Display. While the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office hasn’t divulged the company’s name, employees of the Israeli firm have been charged with leaking of technologies used to produce AMOLED display and White OLED displays. Accused employees took photos of [...]
Samsung tries to solve the limitations of Silicon with Graphene
Samsung’s Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) has managed to achieve a breakthrough by developing a new transistor structure using graphene that promises to enable semiconductor devices to increase the performance which the current silicon transistors aren’t able to achieve. Graphene possesses electron mobility more than 200 times that of silicon but unlike silicon, graphene [...]
Samsung sees high demand for Flexible Displays
Samsung is yet to start mass production of its flexible displays but the Korean company is already seeing a positive response from its customers. According to Samsung Electronics’ Vice Chairman, Kwon Oh-hyun, they’re getting “huge” orders for the next-generation bendable and unbreakable displays. While Samsung hasn’t revealed the clients they’re receiving orders from, Korea [...]
Samsung Flexible Displays to ship within a year
Samsung has yet again confirmed a tentative timeframe of its flexible displays. These unbreakable and bendable displays will be available “within a year” according to a Samsung Mobile Display executive. Samsung expects to integrate these displays in mobile handsets followed by tablets and other mobile devices. The first-generation flexible displays are expected to support [...]
Samsung develops camera sensor that can capture image and depth information
Samsung unveiled a new camera sensor that can capture normal RGB and range images at the same time. The sensor developed by Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) combines the depth-sensing z-pixels with RGB into one, allowing the device to record light and depth information simultaneously. Depth information is used to detect motion gestures [...]