Samsung to show off lower-profile OLED at CES
Major consumer electronics producer Samsung is expected to show off a prototype 31-inch active matrix OLED, and to begin producing 14-inch displays in 2008.
Samsung's latest prototype active matrix screen will be a 31" 4.3 mm display, slightly larger and lower-profile than Sony's 27" 5 mm prototype that it showed off at last year's CES.
Samsung and Sharp slug it out in global LCD war
With CES 2008 now just around the corner, Samsung today injected more fuel into a legal battle already revving up among some of the top global players in LCDs and other TV and computer display screens.
Although poised to show highly advanced TV display technology at next month's CES 2008 in Las Vegas, Samsung also stands embroiled in legal battles on a couple of fronts in its South Korean homeland and elsewhere. One of these fights -- an LCD patent war -- took on heightened global proportions with Samsung's revelation today that it has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission demanding a probe of industry rival Sharp.
Samsung at center of 'Korean Watergate' bribery probe
In South Korea, Samsung Electronics' politically powerful parent company stands accused by a whistleblower of creating a $220 million slush fund for paying off government officials. The investigation keeps intensifying.
While Samsung Electronics this week launched a new solid state disk (SSD) Web site, and T-Mobile released Samsung's WiFi-enabled Katalyst phone, the South Korean government banned more officals of parent firm the Samsung Group from leaving the country and hunted around for documents to support allegations of bribery and corruption at the conglomerate.
Samsung's next-gen DVD combo player ships
Despite rumors of delays, the Korean electronics maker says its dual-format player is still on track for a release this month. The BD-UP5000 will also ship with a lower price than originally announced. Samsung said that it will lower the price to $799, $200 cheaper than its original listing. According to a spokesperson, the player has begun shipping and will appear on retailers' shelves soon.
Even with Samsung's assurances, the Amazon.com list page for the product still says the player will be released on January 15, 2008.
Samsung to sample nearly four times faster graphics memory
Next February at the industry's leading symposium on semiconductor technology, Samsung is preparing to present a dissertation and perhaps a sample on a new class of graphics memory with 375% the data rate of today's GDDR3.
Along the way, someone at some point decided to skip a number: It will be called GDDR5, and unless someone else steps forward really soon, Samsung may be the only manufacturer (unless Rambus steps up to the plate) to present not only a technical explanation but also working samples to a solid-state circuits conference in San Francisco in February.
Samsung Cancels Blu-ray Player, Delays Dual-Mode Unit
Samsung confirmed Wednesday that it was canceling one of its Blu-ray players, while delaying its dual-format model until the end of the year.
The Blu-ray-only BD-P2400 was set to debut at a price point of $649 USD. However, the device was essentially the same as the $100 cheaper BD-P1400, save for the addition of HQV video processing.
Samsung's Revised Blackjack to Premiere with AT&T
Samsung announced at the CTIA Wireless show in San Francisco yesterday that its Blackjack II smartphone will be available later this year through AT&T. The i617 is much like its predecessor in appearance and profile, but has undergone some design tweaks.
Most notably missing from the handset is the scroll wheel, which made the Blackjack behave much like a Blackberry. It has been replaced by an iPod-style jogwheel above the keypad.
Sharp Sues Samsung Over LCD Technology
Sharp sued Samsung in Texas District Court on Monday, accusing it of infringing on patents related to liquid crystal display technologies.
Five different patents are included in the suit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Patent suits are frequently filed in this district as it is seen as a favorable court for patent holders. Sharp is asking for a jury trial.
Samsung Boosts Solid-State Disk Capacity to 64 GB
A little over a year after it premiered the first commercially available solid-state hard disk drives at about 32 GB capacity, Samsung said it's now mass-producing a package announced last March at an electronics show in Taiwan, that clusters eight 8 GB flash components together, while still maintaining the 1.8-inch form factor needed for portable devices.
The announcement shows Samsung is marching right in lockstep with its solid-state roadmap outlined in May of last year, which it reiterated at CES last January.
Samsung Releases New UMPC
Even though the platform itself is struggling to stay afloat, Samsung on Monday introduced a new line of Ultra Mobile PCs in an effort to kick start the market.
The Q1 Ultra is the successor the original Q1, released by the Korean electronics maker last year. It will feature a "split" QWERTY keyboard, mouse, and user-defined function keys.
Microsoft Extends Linux Covenant to Samsung
Late yesterday, Samsung and Microsoft jointly announced they had reached a broad cross-licensing arrangement to share patented technologies, in a move which Microsoft says was part of an effort to extend licenses for its technology to hardware manufacturers that deploy Linux and UNIX in software.
Cash will apparently be exchanged between the two companies, although the amounts may never be known. But the deal could set a precedent that may raise even more questions among the Linux community, especially over whether Microsoft should be licensing its technology ostensibly so others can use not Windows, but Linux.
Samsung, Nokia Partnership on DVB-H Signals Battleground Shift
Much of the focus of this year's National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas this week will be on differing standards for digital broadcasting. Although US terrestrial broadcasters are gearing up for a permanent transition to the new digital spectrum in just under two years' time, considerable scrutiny is being given to the entry into the North American market of digital, portable TV services that have already taken root in Europe and Asia - especially Korea - not just for their portability but as potential alternate channels for TV content distribution.
So this morning's announcement by Samsung and Nokia - considered rivals in the portable phone manufacturing market - of cooperation toward the development of a key standard arising from Europe's DVB-H specification, is a bit of a wake-up call. Samsung is perceived as one of the driving forces behind the popularity of DMB, the most prevalent digital portable broadcast standard in Korea, while Nokia has been the champion of DVB-H in Europe.
Samsung To Offer Dual-Format HD Disc Player
With the high-definition disc war still unresolved, yet another company plans to attempt to offer consumers in the United States a dual-format player by the end of this year.
Samsung, who has been one of Blu-ray's biggest proponents, announced its plans on Friday. It is the second company behind LG to develop an actual product. LG showed its drive off at CES, though it is said to lack some critical HD DVD features.
Samsung Gives UMPC Form Factor One More Go
Just over one year after Microsoft and a handful of hardware partners followed up a stupendous marketing campaign for something called "Origami" - which included a presentation to the press that asked the question, "What am I?" rather than answering it - Samsung revealed at the CeBIT conference in Hannover today its intention to upgrade the now-largely-forgotten UMPC platform with at least some of the key features it lacked.
For instance, the device whose category had been touted as providing "ubiquitous connectivity" - albeit without WiFi, broadband, or Bluetooth - will now have access to all three, at least in Samsung's trial run of its new Q1Ultra for the Korean market. ("Ultra," in this case, means "this time for real.")
Samsung Debuts 8GB Mobile NAND Flash Chip
Samsung has begun shipping samples of a new 8GB NAND flash chip, which could be integrated into phones to eliminate the need for a separate memory slot. This would allow for smaller devices, the company says.
Called moviNAND, the technology consists of four 50-nanometer 16-Gigabit NAND flash memories along with integrated MultiMediaCard support for companies who still wish to add expandable memory.
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