Samsung
Now that JEDEC has published specification of GDDR7 memory, memory manufacturers are beginning to announce their initial products. The first out of the gate for this generation is Samsung, which has has quietly added its GDDR7 products to its official product catalog. For now, Samsung lists two GDDR7 devices on its website: 16 Gbit chips rated for an up to 28 GT/s data transfer rate and a faster version running at up to 32 GT/s data transfer rate (which is in line with initial parts that Samsung announced in mid-2023). The chips feature a 512M x32 organization and come in a 266-pin FBGA packaging. The chips are already sampling, so Samsung's customers – GPU vendors, AI inference vendors, network product vendors, and the like &ndash...
Samsung Premiere 2013: Galaxy & ATIV London Launch, Live Blog
We just got seated for Samsung's Galaxy & ATIV event in London, the event should begin in 5 minutes - check back here for live updates!
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/20/2013Samsung Announces Galaxy S4 Zoom - 16 MP, Zoom, Makes Calls
Samsung's Galaxy camera came out almost a year ago, and it roughly mimicked the specs of an international SGS3 but included a unique camera system and body. Although the...
16 by Brian Klug on 6/12/2013Samsung Makes Galaxy S 4 Active Official - IP67 and Ruggedized
It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone at this point, but Samsung has just now made the ruggedized version of the popular Galaxy S 4 official, called Galaxy S...
36 by Brian Klug on 6/5/2013The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 20
This time on the AnandTech Podcast we're talking about Samsung's Galaxy S 4. Also on the menu today are the HTC First, T-Mobile iPhone 5, ASUS FonePad, Samsung Galaxy...
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/30/2013Samsung Galaxy S 4 Incompatible with Original TecTiles, TecTile 2 Announced
In our part 1 review of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 (SGS4) I noted that the device included a BCM2079x NFC controller. This is the same controller as we’ve...
28 by Brian Klug on 4/26/2013Samsung Galaxy S 4 Review - Part 1
It’s no secret that Samsung enjoyed huge success with Galaxy S 3. In many markets, SGS3 was easily the Android handset to beat, even as faster and arguably better...
336 by Brian Klug on 4/24/2013Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 Review
For the past couple of years Samsung, and many other Google partners, have been on the hunt to improve productivity on Android - particularly on tablets. We’ve seen hardware...
96 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/17/2013The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 19
Remember Brian Klug? Want to hear him rant about phones, operators and Facebook? It's time for the next podcast. The AnandTech Podcast - Episode 19 featuring Anand Shimpi, Brian Klug &...
57 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/12/2013Samsung ATIV Smart PC: Revisiting Clover Trail Convertibles
The Windows 8 tablet space at launch consisted exclusively of Tegra 3-based or Core i5/i7 ULV-based systems. That changed with the release of Krait and Clover Trail tablets like...
60 by Vivek Gowri on 3/18/2013Samsung's Galaxy S 4: Introduction & Hands On
Since 2010 Samsung has grown to become not only the clear leader in the Android smartphone space, but the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. Its annual iteration of...
209 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/14/2013Samsung's Unpacked 2013 Launch Event Live Blog
We're live from Samsung's Unpacked event in NYC where the company is about to announce their next-generation flagship smartphone. Keep it parked here for live updates!
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/14/2013Imagination Technologies Confirms PowerVR SGX 544 IP used in Exynos 5 Octa
ARM was being unusually coy when talking about the GPU IP used in Samsung's recently announced Exynos 5 Octa. We eventually found out why: unlike the Exynos 5 Dual...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/12/2013Samsung Announces SAFE with KNOX - Security Container for Enterprise BYOD
I talked with Anand about his impressions of the Note 8 after reading his hands on piece, and one thing that struck me was a mention of how Samsung...
3 by Brian Klug on 2/25/2013Samsung's Galaxy Note 8.0: Introduction & Hands On
Samsung's goal for 2013 is to see the same success in tablets as it did in smartphones in 2012. It's a lofty goal, but one that is entirely feasible...
32 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/23/2013Samsung's TV Discovery Service Enables TV to Smartphone/Tablet Streaming
I'm not entirely sure I understand the point of MWC this year if everyone is going to pre-empt the show with announcements of their own (or in the case...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/22/2013Samsung Details Exynos 5 Octa Architecture & Power at ISSCC '13
At CES this year Samsung introduced the oddly named Exynos 5 Octa SoC, one of the first Cortex A15 SoCs to implement ARM's big.LITTLE architecture. Widely expected to be...
52 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/20/2013Samsung Laptop UEFI Bugs: Not Just for Linux
About ten days ago I posted about a problem with Samsung laptops getting bricked when trying to boot Linux using UEFI. There was a fair amount of commentary on...
18 by Jarred Walton on 2/9/2013Samsung Laptops Bricked by Booting Linux Using UEFI
Ryan passed this along early this morning (really early for Ryan, seeing that we’re not even in the double digits of the morning hours!), and while this issue is...
43 by Jarred Walton on 1/30/2013Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa: Powered by PowerVR SGX 544MP3, not ARM's Mali
At CES, Samsung announced its Exynos 5 Octa SoC featuring four ARM Cortex A7s and four ARM Cortex A15s. Unusually absent from the announcement was any mention of the...
43 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 1/13/2013A Look at Samsung's Curved Smartphone Concept and 4.99-Inch 1080p AMOLED Display
I got a chance to look at some of Samsung Displays' new and upcoming products, probably one of the highlights of my CES 2013 experience. There's a bit to...
31 by Brian Klug on 1/12/2013