Samsung and IBM have designed a new vertical transistor architecture for semiconductors that promises reduced energy usage compared to scaled finFET semiconductors and potentially pave the way for semiconductors’ future while following the Moore’s Law principle. Called as the Vertical Transport Field Effect Transistors or VTFET, the transistors are built perpendicular to the surface of […]
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Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Steel find a way to recycle wastewater sludge
The association between Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Steel is a perfect example of “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”. The companies have announced that they have jointly developed a way to reuse the wastewater sludge generated from the semiconductor manufacturing process and use it for steelmaking. One of the processes involve using fluorite to […]
Samsung introduces 200MP camera sensor, another with instantaneous autofocus
Samsung today announces ISOCELL HP1, a mobile imaging sensor that supports 200MP resolution. Touted as the industry’s first, this 200MP sensor is based on 0.64μm-sized pixels that enable capturing ultra-high-resolution and an impeccable amount of detail in every picture. ISOCELL HP1 also features a new tech for pixel-binning to produce more details in every shot. […]
Samsung’s new ZNS SSD boasts a longer lifespan
Samsung has developed a new SSD tech that will help enhance the lifespan of an SSD. Dubbed Zoned Namespace technology or ZNS in short, the new SSD (model PM1731a) is meant for use in storage server and data center setting that dramatically improves the lifespan of the drive by three to four times. With ZNS, […]
Upcoming Exynos SoC will feature ray-tracing, variable refresh rate
At the Computex today, AMD’s Lisa Su confirmed their tech coming soon to Samsung’s Exynos SoC. During the keynote, Su confirmed that the “next-generation Exynos SoC” will use AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture for its GPU that will bring ray-tracing and variable refresh rate. Apart from this, the details are scant at the moment but said […]