Samsung announced its first ever Blu-ray Combo drive for computers, the SH-B083. The Combo drive is able to read BD discs at up to 8X while it can read/write CDs and DVDs at up to 40X and 16X respectively. Samsung has integrated number of features to make its offering superior to others. For instance, […]
Hardware
Samsung brings world’s first Mobile Display Driver IC with touchscreen function
At the forum held in Taiwan, Samsung also unveiled the world’s first chip to embed a capacitive touchscreen control function with mobile display driver IC (DDI). With the integration of capacitive touchscreen function along with the DDI technology, manufacturers can give users the advantages of capacitive, lower power consumption that will effectively increase the […]
Samsung to increase production of its OneDRAM for mobile handsets
The announcements at the Samsung Mobile Solutions Forum are far from over. The Korean company have also acknowledged to ramp up production of 1Gb OneDRAM, Samsung’s fusion memory for mobile handsets. Introduced first in 2008, the 60nm-based OneDRAM has a speed of 166MHz that easily handles and processes the complex requirements of high-speed networks, […]
Samsung’s Front-end receiver SoC with China mobile broadcasting standard
Samsung announced the industry’s first 65nm-based SoC with channel decoder RF. The chip is specifically targeted at the Chinese market that will enable Chinese users to watch live TV, sports and weather forecasts right in their mobile devices. The S3C4F71 SoC features a zero-IF CMOS RF tuner, UHF, S-Band frequency range and China’s multimedia […]
5MP SoC Image Sensor to evolve mobile photography
Samsung also announced a 5 megapixel System-on-Chip (SoC) image sensor at the Samsung Mobile Solutions Forum in Taiwan. The S5K4EA SoC has been created to bring the digital camera equivalent performance to high-end mobile phones. The SoC packs a CMOS Image Sensor and an image signal processor in a 1.4-micron (um) size. Its rich […]