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 […]
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Samsung leads the Monitor Market for five straight years
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 starts mass production of mSATA SSDs
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 unveils Cortex-A15 2GHz Exynos 5250 SoC
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 […]
Exynos 4412 can be the first quad-core SoC from Samsung
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 […]