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Previously it was believed that Qualcomm would split orders Qualcomm does not seem to want to produce the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC at Samsung factories. [caption id="attachment_85303" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Samsung[/caption] Samsung will not receive orders from Qualcomm again. Previously, the company said that it was interested in diversifying production, hinting that against the backdrop of Samsung's success in mastering new technological processes, the company could again begin ordering flagship platforms from the Korean giant. Now it is reported that Qualcomm has decided to give all orders for Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 again only to TSMC. Qualcomm has reportedly decided not to rely on Samsung due to its inconsistent die yield and conservative expansion strategy, whatever that means. However, the launch of mass production of Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is still quite far away, so Qualcomm boards may well change.

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But there are many reasons Samsung has increased its costs for the purchase of single-chip systems for smartphones several times in recent years. [caption id="attachment_85214" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Samsung[/caption] According to insider Revegnus, in the first three quarters of this year, Samsung spent almost $7 billion on this area, which is 10.4% more than in the same period last year. The growth is not very significant, however, for the entire 2021, only $4.8 billion was spent on these same tasks, for 2020 - 4.3 billion, and in 2019 the amount was only 2.3 billion. But even Samsung budget phones now have normal performance. Of course, a significant part of the growth is due to the constant rise in price of the flagship SoC Snapdragon 8. Let us recall that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 allegedly cost $160 at the start. In addition, we must add inflation and, in general, rising prices for semiconductor products. Part of the increase in costs may be due to the fact that inexpensive Samsung devices have finally begun to receive completely normal platforms, and not SoCs that are head and shoulders inferior to competitors in the same price range. It is also worth saying that rising platform costs are an additional incentive for Samsung to further develop its own Exynos SoCs. Insider Revegnus was the first to publish a photo of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 before its release, reported on the AMD GPU in the Exynos 1480 SoC, and also described the characteristics of the Exynos 2400, which were then confirmed in Geekbench software.

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On average by 25% Samsung is going to raise prices for image sensors for mobile devices. [caption id="attachment_85089" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Samsung[/caption] System LSI is the world's second largest manufacturer of image sensors for mobile cameras, after Sony. Therefore, increasing prices for ISOCELL sensors will affect many manufacturers. Samsung will significantly increase the prices of its ISOCELL image sensors for smartphones Moreover, prices will be raised significantly: on average by 25%, and in some cases the increase will exceed 30%. Apparently, this will primarily affect sensors with a resolution of 32 megapixels and higher, that is, mid-budget and top-end models. Next year, the smartphone market is expected to return to growth, and Samsung apparently wants to make money on it in this way. At the same time, other market players may well follow the example of the Korean giant.

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Probably from 2024 or 2025 Samsung may abandon the Exynos brand, replacing it with another. [caption id="attachment_84961" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Samsung[/caption] According to insider OreXda, who previously announced the formation of the Samsung MX department before the company's official announcement, the Exynos brand will be replaced by Dream Chip. It's also worth noting that Revegnus has previously said that the Exynos 2400 will likely be Samsung's last Exynos-branded SoC. Will Samsung finally abandon the Exynos brand? The new name was apparently chosen as Samsung was assembling a Dream Team to develop a completely new single-chip system for its future flagship smartphones. It is now believed that this will be Exynos 2500. More precisely, if the new data is correct, then the platform that would have been called Exynos 2500 will now be called differently. The departure from the Exynos brand itself is quite logical, given the reputation of these platforms that has formed in recent years. [Updated] Samsung has commented on the rumors. It turned out they were only partly true. The name Dream Chip (or simply Dream) actually exists as an internal project name. Probably a project to develop Exynos 2500. But at the same time, the Korean giant is not going to give up the Exynos brand.

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It costs $1235 in China In May of this year, Samsung released the Odyssey OLED G9 (S49CG954SC), a 49-inch dual 2K OLED 240Hz display starting at $2,200. According to IT Home, Samsung has now released a new model, the S49CG934, which also has a 49-inch dual OLED screen with 2K resolution and a frequency of 240 Hz, but the price of the new product is only $1,235. [caption id="attachment_80430" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Samsung[/caption] This monitor uses a 49-inch OLED screen with an aspect ratio of 32:9, 1800R curvature, and a resolution of 5120 × 1440 pixels. The image refresh rate is 240 Hz, the response time is 0.03 ms, the DCI-P3 color gamut reaches 99%, and the peak brightness is 1000 cd/m2. Immediately $1000 cheaper than the previous model. Samsung has released a new 49-inch monitor The monitor has built-in dual stereo speakers, supports split-screen functions and picture-in-picture mode, is equipped with HDMI 2.1, DP 1.4, a full-featured USB-C interface and an ergonomic base. [caption id="attachment_80431" align="aligncenter" width="457"] Samsung[/caption] The monitor uses the Tizen system.

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It fell by 78% As expected, Samsung Electronics today, October 11, reported its results for the third quarter of this year. The world's largest maker of memory chips, smartphones, and TVs confirmed operating profit was $1.79 billion, down 78% from a year earlier. By comparison, operating income in the third quarter of last year was $8 billion. But that was slightly more than the $1.56 billion that analysts had expected. Samsung admits multiple drops in profits Samsung Electronics had sales of $50 billion in the same period, down 13% over the past year. [caption id="attachment_65113" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Samsung[/caption] The company did not provide detailed divisional data, but analysts previously said that Samsung's chip division, traditionally Samsung's biggest source of revenue, was unprofitable last quarter, while Samsung's mobile business led the way.

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The data will be announced tomorrow, October 11 Samsung Electronics' profit in the third quarter is expected to fall by 80% compared to the same period a year earlier, as reported by Reuters. The world's largest maker of memory chips, smartphones, and TVs will announce preliminary third-quarter earnings results on Wednesday. Operating profit is expected to decline to $1.56 billion, according to LSEG SmartEstimate and 19 analysts. By comparison, operating profit in the September quarter last year was $8 billion. Samsung's chip unit, traditionally Samsung's biggest source of revenue, is set to report a quarterly loss of $2.2 billion to $3 billion after memory chip prices hit rock bottom but failed to recover as quickly as forecast. Analysts say Samsung's chip production cuts have also taken a toll. The largest drop in Samsung's profits by five times [caption id="attachment_64881" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Samsung's[/caption] After first announcing production cuts in April, analysts said Samsung cut production in the third quarter to reduce inventories and cope with a chip glut that has led to the industry's worst downturn in decades. Smartphone and personal computer makers are holding back on buying new memory chips, preferring to use existing stock for a few months due to fears of an economic downturn. Samsung's mobile business is likely to report an operating profit of $2.2 billion, according to the average forecast of five analysts, as the company launched its premium foldable smartphones during the quarter, boosting sales despite a sluggish global smartphone market.

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Exclusive games will be released for foldable Galaxy Samsung, apparently, also wants to turn its smartphones into more gaming solutions, following the example of Apple. To do this, the Korean giant has enlisted the support of such giants as Epic Games and Krafton. [caption id="attachment_64748" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Samsung[/caption] Starting yesterday, Samsung Gaming Task Force teams began working in different countries. More precisely, such teams were formed in South Korea, Great Britain, China, and Ukraine. Samsung specialists will work together with developers and publishers from Epic Games, Krafton, NCSoft, Nexon, Smilegate, Kakao Games, and Pearl Abyss. Samsung wants to follow Apple's lead in turning its foldable smartphones into gaming consoles. Interestingly, this entire project is supposedly aimed exclusively at foldable smartphones. At least the Hankyung resource says that we are talking about developing new and optimizing existing games only for foldable smartphones Galaxy Z. Considering that foldable smartphones are still very far from the dominant generation in Samsung sales, this decision looks somewhat strange. Global shipments of foldable smartphones are expected to increase 37.7% next year to 25.2 million units, according to TrendForce. There is a high probability that deliveries will exceed 70 million in 2027. But this is the total sales of all brands. But the choice of companies for cooperation is as obvious as possible. Let us remember that Epic Games developed the super-popular Fortnite, and Krafton is responsible for PUBG. Let us remember that Apple, with its iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max, also focused on games, announcing ports of full-fledged console and computer games. It is also worth remembering recent data that Samsung is preparing a gaming service exclusively for its devices. We are likely talking about the above project.

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Future Galaxy smartphones may be updated for 7 years Google set a new standard for smartphone software support when it announced that the latest Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro will be updated for 7 years. As it turns out, Samsung is now working on something similar. Shin-Chul Baik, chief engineer and manager of the Mobile Experience division, spoke about this at the Samsung developer conference. [caption id="attachment_64556" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Samsung[/caption] Samsung wants to further extend the software support period for its smartphones It should be noted right away that we are not talking about guaranteed seven Android updates. Shin-Chul Bike is part of the team responsible for the security of mobile devices. He said Samsung is actively discussing how it can extend security updates beyond the five years of support that Samsung currently guarantees for some of its devices. Here you need to understand one thing: Samsung is not Google. She doesn’t have two or three smartphones in the current line, but about a hundred. But there are also old ones and tablets. The company ends up releasing more than 10 billion updates every year, and Samsung has invested heavily in making this possible. Thus, in the future, perhaps Samsung will indeed increase the software support period for its smartphones, but it will most likely look like this: 5 years of Android updates and another 2 years of security updates.  

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ISOCELL HW optical format will be 1 inch An insider known on Twitter (X) under the nickname Revegnus has revealed details about Samsung's future image sensors. It turns out that the company is preparing two sensors with a resolution of 432 megapixels at once! [caption id="attachment_64111" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Samsung[/caption] It seems that numerous tests have long shown that photo quality is not directly dependent on the number of megapixels (Apple can explain this especially well), but Samsung believes otherwise. Samsung doesn't know the megapixel war is over? The new sensors will be presented as part of the ISOCELL HW line. There will be two models: ISOCELL HW1 and ISOCELL HW2. The resolution in both cases is the same, 432 megapixels, but the diagonal of the sensor is slightly different and, accordingly, the pixel size is different: HW1 - 1/1.05 inches and 0.56 microns, HW2 - 1/1.07 inches and 0.5 microns. [caption id="attachment_64112" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Samsung[/caption] It’s hard to say whether ISOCELL HW sensors will be better than Sony’s inch sensors. If they can capture more light, there may be a breakthrough. But Sony is not sitting idle either. Revegnus also reported that the Galaxy Z Fold 6 will receive a 50-megapixel ISOCELL GN3 as the main one, and the Galaxy Z Fold 7 will use a completely new (and not yet officially presented) HP5 sensor. As the name suggests, the HP5 will be a significantly improved version of the current 200-megapixel HP3. Insider Revegnus was the first to publish a photo of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 before its release and also described the characteristics of the Exynos 2400, which were then confirmed in Geekbench software.

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But the competitors of the Galaxy S24 will be built on the much more powerful Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 According to rumors, Samsung will use its own Exynos 2400 single-chip system in the latest flagships Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24 Plus, and only the Galaxy S24 Ultra will receive the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. The Exynos 2400 premiere may take place today, but the result of the first test of the platform has already appeared on the Internet, and, judging by it, the new Samsung platform will not even reach the level of the current Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. [caption id="attachment_63778" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Samsung[/caption] Samsung, is this a flagship platform? True, so far there is only a test of the Exynos 2400 GPU. In the Powerboard 4.0 benchmark, the Samsung Galaxy S24 built on the Exynos 2400 scored 1656 points, and the Galaxy S23 scored 1746 points in the same benchmark. [caption id="attachment_63779" align="aligncenter" width="541"] Samsung[/caption] Yes, you can make an allowance for the fact that the final version of the Exynos 2400 has not yet been tested, but we are talking about future flagships that will receive a much more powerful Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. So the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24 Plus may be noticeably inferior in performance compared to other top 2024 models.

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The presentation will take place on October 4 Samsung India has confirmed that the presentation of new products will take place on October 4 this year. The image contains three cameras and is accompanied by the text The New Epic. Samsung hasn't mentioned the name of the smartphone, but it is expected to be the Galaxy S23 FE. [caption id="attachment_62471" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Samsung[/caption] Samsung India has also released a teaser of the new Galaxy Tab, which is expected to be the Galaxy Tab S9 FE. Additionally, Amazon has also updated its promotional page to show off the Galaxy Buds FE. Both new products will be launched in India on October 4 along with the Samsung Galaxy S23 FE. Samsung announced a new “epic” Galaxy smartphone and tablet Previously, MySmartPrice received information about prices for the Samsung Galaxy S23 FE in the US, which will cost $599, and the Galaxy Buds FE headphones will be offered for $99. [caption id="attachment_62472" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Samsung[/caption] According to rumors, the Samsung Galaxy S23 FE will be equipped with a 6.4-inch AMOLED display with a refresh rate of 60 to 120 Hz and a peak brightness of 1450 cd/ m2. The smartphone will be equipped with a Samsung Exynos 2200 single-chip system in the global market and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 in the US and Canadian markets. The equipment will include 8 GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 128 GB/256 GB of UFS3.1 flash memory.

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Commissioned by Tenstorrent Samsung's contract chip manufacturing division has a new customer in the form of a Canadian startup called Tenstorrent, which develops chips with artificial intelligence technologies. Tenstorrent is among several startups trying to compete with Nvidia, which dominates the AI ​​chip market. The company makes chips for data centers but is also working to supply other markets, including automotive. Samsung will release the latest Quasar chips to compete with Nvidia [caption id="attachment_62210" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Samsung[/caption] As part of the deal, Tenstorrent plans to use one of Samsung's advanced manufacturing processes (4nm) to produce chips. Some of Tenstorrent's chips are built using technology known as RISC-V, an open-source semiconductor architecture that competes with Arm and x86. However, the chip that Samsung will produce is called Quasar and is not based on RISC-V technology. “Tenstorrent's goal is to develop high-performance computing and deliver those solutions to customers around the world,” Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller said in a statement. Legendary processor designer Jim Keller joined Tenstorrent as CTO in December 2020 and became CEO in January 2023.

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And they will get 12mm emitters Fan-made Samsung Galaxy Buds FE headphones will be very affordable. According to recent data, the new product will cost $100. [caption id="attachment_56330" align="aligncenter" width="660"] Samsung Galaxy Buds FE[/caption] For comparison, the Galaxy Buds2 launched at $150. At the same time, it is not yet clear how the FE model will differ from older versions, but insider Roland Quandt reports that the headphones will be equipped with 12 mm drivers with settings from AKG. Fan-made Samsung Galaxy Buds FE headphones will cost only $100 Let's remember that Galaxy Buds2 supports active noise reduction, offers autonomy for up to 7.5 hours, and is protected from moisture (IPx2). Roland Quandt completely declassified the GoPro 9 Black and GoPro 10 Black cameras before their announcement and named their exact cost, and also published accurate renders of the Nokia G21, Xiaomi Mi A3, Xiaomi Mi 9T, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4, and many other smartphones.

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Production starts at the end of the year Samsung introduced DDR5 RAM chips with a capacity of 32 Gbit, that is, a capacity of 4 GB. [caption id="attachment_51912" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Samsung[/caption] Samsung has developed a 32Gb DDR5 chip that will allow the creation of 128GB RAM modules Such microcircuits will allow the creation of 128 GB RAM modules. It is known that we are talking about using a 12-nanometer class process technology. Mass production of such microcircuits is planned for the end of this year, that is, 128 GB modules may appear as early as the beginning of next year. Samsung also notes in its press release that since 1983, DRAM capacity has increased 500,000 times. The same Samsung developed its first RAM chips with a capacity of 64 KB in 1983.