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Of the several major changes coming with HBM4 memory, one of the most immediate is the sheer width of the memory interface. With the fourth-generation memory standard moving from an already wide 1024-bit interface to a ultra-wide 2048-bit interface, HBM4 memory stacks won't be business as usual; chip manufacturers are going to need to adopt more advanced packaging methods than are used today to accommodate the wider memory. As part of its European Technology Symposium 2024 presentation, TSMC offered some fresh details into the base dies it will be manufacturing for HBM4, which will be built using logic processes. With TSMC planning to employ variations of their N12 and N5 processes for this task, the company is expecting to occupy a favorable place in the...
The Samsung Galaxy Note5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ Review
The Galaxy Note line has long been one of Samsung’s greatest assets in the mobile market. While other Android OEMs have made phablets before, Samsung was pretty much the...
225 by Joshua Ho on 10/2/2015
Samsung Details 3rd Gen V-NAND Rollout: 4TB 850 Pro, 1TB 850 EVO M.2, & More In 2016
Along with announcing the new 2nd generation V-NAND based 950 Pro SSD, Samsung also detailed some of their plans for the rollout of drives based on their recently announced...
23 by Ryan Smith & Billy Tallis on 9/22/2015
Samsung Announces 950 Pro SSD, Their First Consumer V-NAND + NVMe SSD
We’re here at Samsung’s SSD Global Summit, the company’s annual SSD technology reveal. This event is typically held mid-summer, however with MERS concerns in South Korea this year, the...
49 by Ryan Smith & Billy Tallis on 9/22/2015
Samsung Announces 12Gb LPDDR4 DRAM For Mobile Devices
Today Samsung Electronics announced that they have begun mass production of the memory industry's first 12Gb LPDDR4 DRAM on their 20nm manufacturing process. These new chips offer 50% greater...
37 by Brandon Chester on 9/8/2015
Samsung Gear S2 Launch Event & Hands-On
After quite a long day yesterday here in Berlin I finally managed to catch a breath to sit down and go over what was likely the biggest reveal over...
31 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/4/2015
Samsung Announces The Gear S2 Smartwatch
Today Samsung announced the Gear S2 and Gear S2 Classic, the newest products in their line of smartwatches. The Gear S2 has what Samsung describes as a more minimal...
16 by Brandon Chester on 8/31/2015
Hands On With the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
Today, Samsung is announcing the next generation of their Galaxy-brand phablets, the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 edge+. Samsung’s phablets have been one of their greatest smartphone...
219 by Joshua Ho on 8/13/2015
Samsung SSD Update: 48-layer 256Gbit TLC 3D NAND & Three New TLC SSDs Announced
When Samsung took the stage at the 2015 Flash Memory Summit, they admittedly didn't deliver any bombshell announcements on the scale of the Intel/Micron 3D XPoint surprise, but they...
61 by Billy Tallis on 8/13/2015
The 2TB Samsung 850 Pro & EVO SSD Review
For the past two years, client SSD capacities have been stumbling at 1TB. The cost of NAND is still too high to make terabyte drives a mainstream capacity, but...
66 by Kristian Vättö on 7/23/2015
Samsung Releases PM863 & SM863 Enterprise SATA SSDs: Up to 3.84TB with 3D V-NAND
At CES, Samsung displayed a variety of new SSD solutions, including PM863 and SM863, the company's new SATA 6Gbps enterprise drives. At the time Samsung was only sampling its...
37 by Kristian Vättö on 7/20/2015
Samsung Announces The 8.0" and 9.7" Galaxy Tab S2 Tablets
Today Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab S2, the followup to last year's Galaxy Tab S tablets. In our review of the Galaxy Tab S 8.4 and 10.5 we ultimately...
49 by Brandon Chester on 7/19/2015
Samsung Launches New 2TB SSD 850 EVO And 850 PRO Models
Due to what Samsung is citing as a surge in demand for larger capacity SSDs, they have now launched two new models offering up to two terabytes of storage...
57 by Brett Howse on 7/7/2015
The Samsung Exynos 7420 Deep Dive - Inside A Modern 14nm SoC
Over the past few years it’s been somewhat expected tradition for Samsung Electronics to employ a strategy of multi-sourcing the SoC for their mobile devices. Most notably it’s on...
114 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/29/2015
Samsung SM951-NVMe (256GB) PCIe SSD Review
Samsung has always been an early adopter in the SSD space. The company was the first one on the market with a PCIe 2.0 x4 M.2 SSD the (XP941...
74 by Kristian Vättö on 6/25/2015
Analysing AMOLED Power Efficiency Improvements
Over the last few years we’ve been repeatedly reporting how Samsung was able to improve AMOLED power efficiency by employing better emitter materials on each new device generation. This...
73 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/23/2015
Samsung Launches Two FreeSync Capable UltraHD Monitors
Today Samsung launched two new UltraHD monitors with support for AMD's Freesync technology. AMD actually announced these monitors at their Future of Compute event last year, but there wasn't...
29 by Brandon Chester on 6/22/2015
Samsung Announces The Galaxy S6 Active
Today Samsung and AT&T announced the Galaxy S6 Active, a variant of the Galaxy S6 with a greater focus on durability and ruggedness. Releasing an Active version of their...
29 by Brandon Chester on 6/8/2015
The Lenovo ThinkStation P900 Workstation Review: Design 101
The workstation market has always been a consistent seller. The dream of offloading to an on or off-site VM and a cluster for work processing still lies more in...
61 by Ian Cutress on 5/6/2015
Samsung Releases Second 840 EVO Performance Fix
If nothing else, the odyssey of Samsung’s 840 EVO has not been lacking in excitement. After initially launching in 2013 to great fanfare as an excellent, strong-performing low-cost drive...
74 by Ryan Smith on 4/27/2015
G.Skill Announces 16GB Unbuffered Modules: 128GB Kit at DDR4-2800
One of the more important announcements this year in the world of DRAM has been the march towards 16GB un-buffered modules. We saw last year Intelligent Memory launch some...
33 by Ian Cutress on 4/24/2015
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