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In brief: Best Buy is now an authorized service center for Samsung mobile devices, meaning you’ll soon be able to head to one of more than 100 Best Buy locations across the country to get repairs on most Samsung phones, including the company's latest foldables. Samsung in announcing the service said repairs will be completed by Samsung-certified Geek … Continue reading Best Buy will soon repair Samsung smartphones, including foldables
Why it matters: Despite an ongoing worldwide chip shortage, Samsung appears immune to the current state of affairs affecting its bottom line. The tech giant is expecting to report its best quarterly profit in three years, as well as record sales. The South Korean conglomerate revealed in its earnings report (via Financial Times) that it achieved a … Continue reading What chip shortage? Samsung records highest profit in 3 years
In brief: Samsung is currently researching ways to download the brain's neuronal map onto an electronic device. That kind of technology is likely several years away from coming to fruition, but it looks like Samsung is just as interested in making memory chips as it is making silicon that mimics brain function. Samsung's latest ambition is … Continue reading Samsung wants to ‘copy and paste’ a brain onto memory chips
Something to look forward to: After 16:10 displays, the next big upgrade for many laptops is going to be a bright, high refresh rate OLED panel from Samsung. A number of upcoming models from Asus and Lenovo will integrate the new display technology, and it won't be long before we start seeing these in even more … Continue reading Samsung starts mass manufacturing 90Hz OLED displays for laptops
In context: Semiconductor demand is surging and an ongoing shortage of chips has pushed companies and governments to invest large amounts of money into establishing production capabilities outside of Asia. Samsung has big plans to conquer semiconductors and other key industries and will be spending $205 billion towards those goals. A $17 billion chunk of … Continue reading Samsung is looking to build a $17 billion chip manufacturing plant in Texas
In brief: AMD and Samsung's collaboration on bringing RDNA 2 graphics to mobile has yet to materialize into an actual product, but the first wave of phones to feature the new graphics engine could land as soon as early next year. You read that right -- Samsung may bring RDNA 2 graphics to phones other than … Continue reading Exynos chips with AMD RDNA 2 graphics could power future Galaxy A-series phones, too
In brief: Not content with a 108-megapixel sensor, Samsung has made a 200-megapixel monstrosity that's designed to trade off resolution for better low-light performance when needed, thanks to pixel-binning. It will most certainly land in a Galaxy S or Galaxy Z phone at some point in the future, but it may actually debut in a Xiaomi … Continue reading Samsung’s ISOCELL HP1 is the first 200-megapixel camera sensor for phones
In brief: Samsung has given us another reason not to buy stolen goods: the Korean giant has revealed a feature that allows it to disable its televisions remotely. The technology was recently used after a number of TVs were stolen from a warehouse in South Africa. Samsung explains that the Television Block Function is already pre-loaded on all … Continue reading All Samsung TVs have a remote kill switch to disable stolen sets, and the company just used it
What just happened? Samsung has replaced Intel as the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer, thanks to a 19% increase in quarterly sales on the back of strong demand and rising prices in the DRAM and flash memory markets. Like its long-running rivalry with Apple in the phone world—before Xiaomi dominate—Samsung is constantly fighting with Intel for the number … Continue reading Samsung jumps above Intel to become world’s top semiconductor supplier
Highly anticipated: The product of Samsung and Google's collaboration has arrived in the form of the Galaxy Watch4 and the Galaxy Watch4 Classic, with a powerful new chipset inside, a unified sensor, and a new One UI experience on top of Wear OS 3. The two watches will look familiar for fans of Samsung hardware, but … Continue reading The Galaxy Watch4 is the first Samsung wearable with Google software