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 Introduces 8 GB LPDDR4-4266 Package for Mobile Devices
Samsung this week announced its first LPDDR4 memory chips made using its 10nm-class DRAM fabrication technology. The new DRAM ICs feature the industry’s highest density of 16 Gb, are...
40 by Anton Shilov on 10/21/2016Samsung CFG70: Curved 144Hz Displays with Quantum Dot Backlighting and AMD FreeSync
Samsung was among the first television manufacturers to use quantum dot technology for its products, and this week the company has continued that trend by introducing the industry’s first...
38 by Anton Shilov on 10/21/2016The Samsung 960 Pro (2TB) SSD Review
A year ago, Samsung brought their PCIe SSD technology to the retail market in the form of the Samsung 950 Pro, an NVMe M.2 SSD with Samsung's 3D V-NAND...
72 by Billy Tallis on 10/18/2016Samsung Foundry Announces 10nm SoC In Mass-Production
Today Samsung announced mass production of a SoC built on its third-generation 10nm "10LPE" manufacturing node. It was only this January that Samsung announced mass production of its 14LPP...
92 by Andrei Frumusanu on 10/17/2016Update: Samsung Officially Halts All Note7 Sales & Exchanges, Now Recalling All Devices
Update 10/13: After earlier asking customers to stop using the Note7, today the company has expanded the matter to a full recall in the United States. All Note7s, originals...
95 by Matt Humrick on 10/13/2016Gen-Z Consortium Formed: Developing a New Memory Interconnect
Anyone tasked with handling the way data is moved around a processor deserves praise. It takes time, dedication and skill to design something that not only works appropriately and...
15 by Ian Cutress on 10/12/2016Samsung ArtPC: Cylindrical PC with 360º audio, i5/i7 plus NVMe, Preorders from $1200
For most PC enthusiasts, if you ask them to name a cylindrical machine, the Mac Pro comes immediately to mind. Not to tread too heavily on Apple’s toes on...
46 by Ian Cutress on 10/10/2016Market Trends Q2 2016: SSD Shipments Up 41.2% YoY, PC Sales Up on Q1
Sales of SSDs in the first quarter of 2016 were up 41.2% year-over-year, based on findings from TrendFocus*, a storage market tracking company. Shipments of all types of SSDs...
24 by Anton Shilov on 10/5/2016The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 39
Here’s the second part of AnandTech’s smartphone podcast, post the Apple event where the iPhone 7 was launched. On the Podcast are Ian, Josh and Matt (apologies for his...
10 by Ian Cutress on 10/3/2016Samsung Announces 960 PRO And 960 EVO M.2 PCIe SSDs (Updated)
UPDATE: New features unveiled during the presentation and Q&A session are described below. Here at Samsung's SSD Global Summit in South Korea, the company has just officially unveiled their next...
138 by Billy Tallis on 9/21/2016HP to Acquire Printer Business from Samsung Amid Shrinking Market
Nowadays printers are no longer supplied with the vast majority of PCs, and the total available market (TAM) of hardcopy peripherals is shrinking. As is the case with these...
37 by Anton Shilov on 9/15/2016Update: Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note7 Due to Battery Fires, Initiates Exchange Program
Update 09/02, 8:20pm ET: Moving quickly, Samsung has esbtablished a product exchange program for Note7 owners in the US. Samsung is giving owners the option of either replacing the...
46 by Brandon Chester on 9/2/2016Hands On With the Samsung Gear S3
For a while now the smartwatch market has been developing in fits and starts. One of the more interesting developments in this space isn’t Android Wear and watchOS, but...
35 by Joshua Ho on 8/31/2016Samsung Announces Exynos 7570 14nm Budget SoC
Today Samsung LSI launches a new 14nm SoC oriented at the budget and IoT segments. The new Exynos 7570 seems to be a a successor to the Exynos 3470...
17 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/30/2016Hot Chips 2016: Exynos M1 Architecture Disclosed
While we can always do black-box testing to try and get a handle for what a CPU core looks like, there’s really only so much you can do given...
29 by Joshua Ho on 8/25/2016G.Skill Shows Off Trident Z 8x8 GB and 8x16 DDR4-3333 Memory Kits
When Intel launched its new Core i7 Broadwell-E processors for high-end desktops earlier this year, all leading makers of motherboards released their new breed of Intel X99-based products that...
0 by Anton Shilov on 8/23/2016The Samsung Galaxy Note7 (S820) Review
This year has been difficult for smartphones, which is a bit of a paradox when you consider just how much better things have gotten compared to last year. With...
203 by Joshua Ho on 8/16/2016Samsung at Flash Memory Summit: 64-layer V-NAND, Bigger SSDs, Z-SSD
At Flash Memory Summit, Samsung announced their fourth generation of 3D NAND and several of the more obvious SSD upgrades it enables. Taking a page from Intel and Micron's...
51 by Billy Tallis on 8/11/2016Hands On With the Samsung Galaxy Note7
The Galaxy Note line is a staple at this point, a segment that Samsung truly owns as the first mover and has been wildly successful in ways that Samsung...
74 by Joshua Ho on 8/2/2016Samsung’s PM1633a Now Available: $10k for 15 TB, $6k for 7 TB
Samsung started to ship its PM1633a SSD with 15.36 TB capacity to select customers in March and recently it began to supply the drive to select resellers as well...
42 by Anton Shilov on 7/29/2016