Tag Archives: Samsung Electronics

There's SiFive's quad-core RISC-V development board, the wireless versions of NXP's MCX MCUs, Arm's most powerful microcontroller-grade neural processor, and our roundup of the latest Embedded World 2024 news...

JEDEC has published a GDDR7 Graphics Memory Standard, JESD239, to improve memory performance in applications such as AI, graphics, gaming. Specifically, the standards body has announced the publication of JESD239 Graphics Double Data Rate (GDDR7) SGRAM. Described as a groundbreaking new memory standard, JESD239 GDDR7 offers double the bandwidth over GDDR6, reaching up to 192 GB/s per device. JEDEC highlights ...

What are the topics covered this week? There's Imec honouring AMD's CEO, adding NVMe SSDs to Raspberry Pi 5, technology company lay-offs, and  Samsung sampling solid state batteries to car manufacturers...

Samsung says it has begun sampling solid state batteries to car manufacturers and will begin mass production of the batteries for EVs and other applications in 2027. Last year, the company set up a pilot  line in Suwon and is using it to refine the product and improve yields The company says that its solid-state batteries will have an energy ...

For example, what caught David Manners' eye this week was the USA saying it is aiming to set up a complete domestic semiconductor supply chain.

What caught David Manners' eye this week was the story that OpenAI’s CEO is trying to raise $7 trillion to build AI chip fabs...

Q4 tablet shipments  fell 17.4% y-o-y  to 36.8 million units, says IDC  – the largest decline in Q4 tablet shipments since 2016. For  2023,  tablet shipments totaled 128.5 million units, a decline of 20.5% compared to 2022 and the lowest annual volume since 2011. Apple retained its top spot in the tablet market, despite a notable decline in shipments for ...

The last time a company not named Samsung was at the top of the smartphone market was 2010. Now it is Apple. Smartphone shipments declined 3.2% year over year to 1.17 billion units in 2023, says IDC. While this marks the lowest full-year volume in a decade,  growth in the second half of the year has cemented the expected recovery ...

Qualcomm is to create RISC-V based silicon for wearables, working with Google to optimise it for Google’s Wear OS. “We are excited to extend our work with Qualcomm Technologies and bring a RISC-V wearable solution to market,” said Google general manager Bjorn Kilburn. Leading up to this, the companies will continue to invest in Snapdragon Wear platforms for the Wear ...

There's Pig Cycle economics, life on Mars, the semi industry increasing revenue, ARM's IPO pricing strategy, and Samsung cutting 50% of its NAND production...