UK cyber-boss slams China's bug-hoarding laws ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Japanese scientists ID ancient supernova; AWS dismisses China trouble rumor; and more Security15 Jul 2024 | 1
South Korean Samsung union strikes again in bid to chip away at production It'd be a shame if something happened to that HBM fab, warns NSEU Personal Tech10 Jul 2024 | 1
Good news: Samsung predicts prodigious profit pop Bad news: It's probably because you have to pay more for RAM Systems05 Jul 2024 |
Samsung teases investment to get into the GPU game Analysis A head-on assault on Nvidia seems unlikely – but dumping AMD from Exynos has merit AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 7
Samsung Korea warns many apps won't run on its Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PCs FWIW Microsoft says 'your apps run great' even when emulated on Arm Personal Tech20 Jun 2024 | 46
SK hynix shimmies towards AI silicon by driving merger of South Korean Nvidia challengers Sapeon and Rebellions think they can do better together Systems13 Jun 2024 |
Samsung union stages its first ever strike – very politely Members stop work – on a day many take off, anyway – in pursuit of better conditions Legal07 Jun 2024 | 9
Samsung workers treated for exposure to radiation in South Korea Workplace safety org identifies 26 hazards in the chipmaking process Systems30 May 2024 | 10
iFixit divorces Samsung over lack of real commitment to DIY repair program CEO tells El Reg the phone titan's 'refusal to be completely candid with us was a major factor' Personal Tech23 May 2024 | 55
Europe buying more Chinese phone brands as market starts to bounce back Apple and Samsung still on top, though, and pre-pandemic numbers but a faraway dream Personal Tech23 May 2024 | 18
Even TSMC can't cook chips fast enough to sate AI's hunger Semiconductor foundry industry thanks its lucky stars amid slow general recovery Systems22 May 2024 |
Hunger for more HBM capacity could cause shortage DRAM-a Analyst warns of another unfortunate side effect of AI Storage21 May 2024 |
Samsung takes bite out of Apple over its mega marketing misstep 'We would never crush creativity,' says South Korea megacorp Bootnotes16 May 2024 | 26
Samsung sole winner as US smartphone market hits sixth quarterly decline in a row Industry looks towards genAI, interest rate cuts for reprieve as America hangs onto its old phones Personal Tech10 May 2024 | 15
Here’s another thing AI can do: Return Samsung’s memory biz to profit HBM will help too. Foundry biz? On track for 2nm but bruised On-Prem30 Apr 2024 |
Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes Might help to set spluttering EV market on fire. Won't catch fire thanks to built-in vents Personal Tech25 Apr 2024 | 201
Rapidus US chief says AI chip crunch, supply chain paranoia make for an ideal growth climate Interview Japanese foundry upstart aims to bolster domestic production while catering to growing demand for custom accelerators Systems24 Apr 2024 | 2
Elon Musk's X to challenge Australian content takedown orders in court Asia In Brief PLUS: Samsung in 'emergency mode'; Tim Cook's Asian charm tour; APAC AI spend to surge Public Sector22 Apr 2024 | 60
Samsung boosts LPDDR5X to 10.7 Gbps, ups efficiency and capacity for mobile and servers Guess what it's great for? Go on, have a guess... 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I Storage17 Apr 2024 | 2
Samsung snags $6.4B in CHIPS Act funds for Texas fabs Work in Austin, Taylor will include new 2nm facility, packaging plant, and Pentagon partnership Systems15 Apr 2024 | 4
World is finally buying more phones and prices are rising Someone forgot to tell Apple and Samsung as Chinese brands rebound Personal Tech15 Apr 2024 | 14
Samsung strikes trouble as unions threaten walkouts, regulator swoops Oh great – another potential kink in the silicon supply chain On-Prem11 Apr 2024 | 3
Wipro appoints new CEO: 32-year veteran and current US boss Srini Pallia takes over ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: YouTube's fake India election ad policy; Singtel not selling Optus; Do Chinese tech stalk former workers? Channel07 Apr 2024 | 1
Samsung enterprise SSD prices skyrocket thanks to AI's appetite for storage Consumer-grade devices won't be hit as hard Storage02 Apr 2024 | 7
Samsung preps inferencing accelerator to take on Nvidia, scores huge sale Asia In Brief PLUS: Tencent's profit plunge; Singtel to build three AI datacenters; McDonald's China gobbles Microsoft AI AI + ML24 Mar 2024 |
Biden to inject Intel with CHIPS fab cash 'next week' Samsung and TSMC apparently slated to receive $6B and $5B On-Prem15 Mar 2024 | 11
GlobalFoundries scores $1.5B in Uncle Sam's semiconductor subsidy bonanza Meanwhile, Intel looks set to bag more than $10B Systems20 Feb 2024 | 2
Apple and Samsung tussle over whose gizmos are hardest to fix Chromebooks earn 'Least Likely to Survive a Screwdriver' award Personal Tech08 Feb 2024 | 11
Japan stumps up more cash for Kioxia and Western Digital to make memory chips Pair still looking to merge after SK hynix blocked deal Storage06 Feb 2024 |
Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong acquitted of stock manipulation charges What a surprise, said no one Legal06 Feb 2024 | 5
Samsung pins hopes on AI to return to growth this year Next generation of devices are going to be packed with it – requiring lots and lots of memory Storage31 Jan 2024 | 3
Things are going to get weird as the nanometer era draws to a close Comment Angstrom age is right around the corner – for state-of-the-art chips, anyway Systems29 Jan 2024 | 19
750 million Indian mobile subscribers' info for sale on dark web Asia In Brief ALSO: Samsung turns to Baidu for Galaxy AI in China; Terraform Labs files for bankruptcy; India's supercomputing ambitions Cyber-crime28 Jan 2024 | 3
Seoul restores smartphone subsidies because premium handsets are apparently essential Buyers in Samsung's home will be offered cheaper Galaxies Personal Tech24 Jan 2024 | 8
Asia beat US, EU in chip building because the West didn't invest, Intel CEO claims Gelsinger reckons pandemic-era supply chain snarls helped demonstrate the sector's importance On-Prem18 Jan 2024 | 29
Apple claims top spot in global smartphone market for first time Shipments grow in Q4 after near two years of declines, and Huawei making a comeback in China Personal Tech16 Jan 2024 | 10
Can you dig it? Samsung buys chunk of a Canadian nickel mining company Korean giant wants a local source of the stuff needed to build batteries Offbeat16 Jan 2024 | 1
Infosys loses ten-year, $1.5 billion contract announced just three months ago Asia In Brief PLUS: Fujitsu Japan spins out servers, storage, and PCs; Japan’s moonshot on track; Samsung reportedly delays Arizona fab opening Channel27 Dec 2023 | 26
ASML joins with Samsung, SK hynix, for chip research lab in South Korea 'Semiconductor alliance' forms as Huawei debuts another chip it shouldn't be able to make On-Prem13 Dec 2023 | 2
Samsung creates a group dedicated to inventing whatever comes next Exec who led memory and battery businesses to global dominance gets the job of defining Chaebol's future Personal Tech28 Nov 2023 | 2
Greenpeace calls out tech giants for carbon footprint fumble Net-zero promises or zero-net progress? Offbeat23 Nov 2023 | 172
Samsung UK discloses year-long breach, leaked customer data Updated Chaebol already the subject of suits for a pair of past indiscretions Security17 Nov 2023 | 4
Gauss we've all got a fresh option for a gen AI handheld: A Samsung device Vendor promises ChatGPT and DALL•E-esque products in the near future Personal Tech09 Nov 2023 | 10
Samsung family sells $2B worth of shares to pay inheritance tax bill Nothing is certain except death and taxes Legal06 Nov 2023 | 7
Samsung's results hint it's time to RAM some money into your memory budget Chaebol reckons market is recovering and prices will rise. Analysts agree On-Prem01 Nov 2023 |
Samsung nabs contract to produce 3nm server chips for mystery US biz Parts reportedly geared toward high-performance compute and leverage advanced packaging Systems13 Oct 2023 |
US allows Samsung and SK hynix to keep making chips in China Investments protected, diplomatic rift averted … even Beijing likes it Systems10 Oct 2023 | 7
Samsung to fab chips for RISC-V processor world's Tenstorrent For now, chaebol will manufacture AI startup’s 4nm Quasar Systems04 Oct 2023 | 2
Samsung wants to push CAMM format into memory mainstream Smaller footprint and detachable Storage26 Sep 2023 | 6
The clock is ticking and Korea wants to know if its chipmakers will get their export license extension SK hynix and Samsung do so much memory-making in China, ending sanction exemptions would be extraordinary Systems22 Sep 2023 | 7
Korea's FTC fines Broadcom $14.3M for pushing 'unfair' deal onto Samsung Updated Watchdog claims it abused market position to leverage 'unfavorable' long-term parts supply contract Systems21 Sep 2023 |
Samsung teases 1TB DDR5 modules with launch of 32Gb die Asia in Brief PLUS: China allows first wave of chatbots, India’s sun-spotter soars; ASUS smacks down speculation it will quit smartphones On-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 3
Dell and Samsung grab first-class tickets for AI hype train Stock prices shoot up thanks to tech flavor of the moment AI + ML01 Sep 2023 | 6
Samsung realizes behaving ethically is good for business, says compliance boss Mega-corp has mastered the complexity of numerous technologies but it took several scandals to impart this obvious lesson Legal29 Aug 2023 | 8
Wafer shipments still down, but chipmakers are looking up AI runs on chips, remember Systems27 Jul 2023 | 2
Samsung makes big promises about GDDR7 RAM Too bad GPU slingers keep shrinking the memory bus Storage20 Jul 2023 | 3
Samsung 'closing the gap' with TSMC on 3nm, 4nm The race to 2nm is getting crowded as Intel, Japan's Rapidus enter the fray Systems18 Jul 2023 | 2
Samsung’s midrange A54 is lovely, but users won't feel seen First look Mostly indistinguishable from a premium handset, but the moments it misses may leave you miffed Personal Tech14 Jul 2023 | 48
Samsung warns of imminent profit plunge It looks like memory glut and consumer indifference to smartmobes are persisting Personal Tech07 Jul 2023 | 8
Samsung to start mass producing 2nm silicon in 2025, first for mobile devices Forms a packaging posse to do the chiplet thing On-Prem29 Jun 2023 | 8
Vodafone offers '5G Ultra' to users of very specific phones in very specific locations 'It will likely be unnoticeable for many consumers' says analyst Networks26 Jun 2023 | 19
Broadcom squeezed Samsung, now South Korea's squeezing back – hard Updated Regulators won't accept proposed remedy for nasty parts deal – but EU may have accepted VMware deal Virtualization14 Jun 2023 |