Samsung
Samsung had quietly launched its BM1743 enterprise QLC SSD last month with a hefty 61.44 TB SKU. At FMS 2024, the company had the even larger 122.88 TB version of that SSD on display, alongside a few recorded benchmarking sessions. Compared to the previous generation, the BM1743 comes with a 4.1x improvement in I/O performance, improvement in data retention, and a 45% improvement in power efficiency for sequential writes. The 128 TB-class QLC SSD boasts of sequential read speeds of 7.5 GBps and write speeds of 3 GBps. Random reads come in at 1.6 M IOPS, while 16 KB random writes clock in at 45K IOPS. Based on the quoted random write access granularity, it appears that Samsung is using a 16 KB indirection unit...
Samsung Develops Smaller DDR4 Dies Using 3rd Gen 10nm-Class Process Tech
Samsung has completed development of its 3rd-generation 10 nm-class manufacturing process for DRAM as well as the first 8 Gb DDR4 chip that uses the technology. The 1z-nm process...
28 by Anton Shilov on 3/21/2019Samsung’s Space-Saving Monitors on Pre-Order: Up to 31.5-Inch
Large displays tend to occupy a lot of desk space, something that is not appreciated by many. Samsung has developed a family of monitors featuring a minimalistic design that...
32 by Anton Shilov on 3/20/2019Samsung HBM2E ‘Flashbolt’ Memory for GPUs: 16 GB Per Stack, 3.2 Gbps
Samsung has introduced the industry’s first memory that correspond to the HBM2E specification. The company’s new Flashbolt memory stacks increase performance by 33% and offer double per-die as well...
25 by Anton Shilov on 3/20/2019Samsung Begins Mass Production of 12 GB LPDDR4X for Smartphones
Samsung said late on Wednesday that it had started volume production of 12 GB LPDDR4X-4266 memory for high-end smartphones. The chip is the highest-density DRAM for mobile applications. The...
19 by Anton Shilov on 3/14/2019ChipRebel Releases Exynos 9820 Die Shot: M4 CPUs in New Cluster
Every time a new SoC comes one, the one thing we eagerly await is for someone to release a die shot of the new chip. This process is most...
66 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/9/2019Samsung Ships First Commercial Embedded MRAM (eMRAM) Product
Samsung today announced that it has started mass production of its first commercial embedded Magnetic Random Access Memory (eMRAM). Made using its 28FDS (28nm FD-SOI) process technology, the eMRAM...
25 by Anton Shilov on 3/6/2019Sizing Up The 5G Modem Market: Qualcomm, Intel, Huawei, Samsung, UniSOC, and Mediatek
It will be very difficult to look at mobile connectivity news in 2019 and not see buzzwords like ‘5G’ being used everywhere. Everyone wants to talk big about 5G...
56 by Ian Cutress on 3/5/2019Samsung's New 512 GB UFS 3.0 Chip for Galaxy Fold, Now in Mass Production
Samsung this week said that it has begun mass production of its UFS 3.0 chips. The company’s initial lineup of UFS 3.0 products includes embedded drives featuring a 128...
6 by Anton Shilov on 2/27/2019Samsung Galaxy S10: First Exynos 9820 vs Snapdragon 855 Scores
One of AnandTech's more in-depth coverage pieces last year was our analysis of the two different version of the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note9. Specifically we covered the quite...
108 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/26/2019Huawei Mate X vs. Samsung Galaxy Fold: Ask the Press
One of the biggest talking points this year at Mobile World Congress is the emergence of folding phones. The two largest smartphone vendors in the world, Samsung and Huawei...
82 by Ian Cutress on 2/25/2019Hands on with the Samsung S10+, S10, and S10e: Which Witch is Which?
Standing as the world’s largest smartphone retailer, Samsung’s flagship family leads the way into how the company sees the next generation of user experience and interaction. Each release has...
72 by Ian Cutress on 2/21/2019Samsung Announces The Galaxy S10: 10th Anniversary Trio
It’s hard to believe, but Samsung is now on its 10th iteration of the Galaxy S line of phones. The Galaxy S started a wave of success for Samsung...
127 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/20/2019Samsung Announces The Galaxy Fold: The First Folding Display Smartphone
Samsung has unveiled its first ever folding smartphone - the Galaxy Fold. Today’s at Samsung’s Unpacked launch event in San Francisco, alongside the much awaited Galaxy S10 line-up of phones...
68 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/20/2019The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2019 Live Blog (Starts at 2pm ET/19:00 UTC)
I'm here at the London venue for Samsung's global Galaxy Unpacked event. Samsung's annual gathering for flagship smartphone news, we'll be seeing the eagerly awaited (and widely leaked) Samsung...
9 by Ian Cutress on 2/20/2019Samsung to Cease Selling Blu-ray Players in the US
Surprisingly for the electronics titan, Samsung has not released any new Blu-ray or Ultra HD Blu-ray players for the US market since 2017. And now in 2019 it looks...
75 by Anton Shilov on 2/19/2019The Samsung 983 ZET (Z-NAND) SSD Review: How Fast Can Flash Memory Get?
Samsung's 983 ZET is a high-end enterprise SSD and the first retail drive to feature Samsung's low-latency SLC Z-NAND flash memory. Designed for highly performance-bound workloads that favor IOPS...
46 by Billy Tallis on 2/19/2019Samsung Unveils Galaxy Tab S5e: 10.5-Inch sAMOLED with USB-C
Samsung today introduced its new mid-range Google Android-based tablet. Despite its formal positioning for consumers, the Galaxy Tab S5e features a rather large 10.5-inch sAMOLED display, a decent SoC...
40 by Anton Shilov on 2/15/2019Samsung's 2019 QLED UHD TVs: 8K TVs Revamped, 4K TVs Get New Panel & Backlighting
Samsung this week formally introduced its 2019 Ultra-HD TV family. The new high-end televisions from Samsung all feature QLED backlighting and compared to their 2018 predecessors, have received audio...
13 by Anton Shilov on 2/13/2019Advantech Unveils 32 GB SQRAM DDR4 DIMMs for HPC
Advantech, a maker of server-grade memory, storage, and other components and solutions, is introducing a new lineup of 32 GB unbuffered DDR4 memory modules. Designed for high-performance computing (HPC...
7 by Anton Shilov on 2/13/2019Samsung Teases Foldable Galaxy Smartphone: Galaxy F?
Samsung Vietnam has accidentally published (and subsequently removed) a brand advertisement video that shows a glimpse at the company’s existing, conceptual, and presumably upcoming products. Among other things, the...
25 by Anton Shilov on 2/1/2019