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Samsung BMW Anticipated Partnership
Samsung’s de facto chief & vice president Lee Jae Yong has returned from his business trip to Europe this 18th of June and seems to be planning the next phase of expansion of business. After arriving, he answered questions from the media at Seoul Gimpo Business Aviation Center (SGBAC).
According to the local media sources, lee visited BMW representatives for an anticipated deal, to supply batteries to BMW.
Currently, SDI or Samsung Digital Interface supplies prismatic batteries to BMW. Prismatic cells are mainly used in energy storage systems and electric vehicles. Stacking multiple units in a battery module creates a Prismatic cell/battery.
Samsung SDI produces cylindrical and prismatic rectangular batteries, BMW is outlining using the latter.
German automaker BMW has a plant under construction in Hungary, where SDI’s major cathode supplier EcoPro BM will be constructing a plant. EcoPro BM produces precursors that are essential for the synthesis of cathode materials.
This EcoPro Bm plant will be nearby to the new BMW plant which will supply cathode materials to the SDI, the largest EV battery manufacturing plant in God, Hungary. This will make sure that the supply and assembly can go smoothly.
It is expected to have an annual production capacity of 108,000 tons. After the preliminary contract was signed this month, it is expected that roadmap has been devised and the plant will be completed in two halves in 2024.
BMW is expected to showcase its new EV platform in 2025, which is why things seem to be in accordance with future production.
As predicted for meetings during his trip to Europe, Lee also visited ASML and IMEC, which was seen to be the primary goal.ASML produces photolithography machines essential for making single-digit nm chips and IMEC is Europe’s largest R&D camp for chip-making processes and the latest technology.
Lee already has plans for meeting this week i.e. smartphone division on Tuesday, TV and home appliance on Wednesday, and semiconductor next Tuesday.
With its pledge to invest, earlier this year, Samsung Electronics announced to invest of 450 trillion won ($350 billion)during the next five years in future businesses like SC, Foundry, and Biopharma.
With already expansions of biopharma, chip, and foundry Samsung Group has envisioned working on EV batteries. Samsung group already Struck deal with Tesla and joined hand with Stellantis N.V., which is a multinational automotive manufacturing corporation.
Samsung has also been pushing its SDI branch for Pacing The Cylindrical Battery Development and its other subsidiaries for conducting Research on EVs.
Here is what Lee had to say about current plans and future vision :
“Technology must come first, second and third,”
-Lee Jae Yong,19th June.
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The Korean brand – Samsung has recently announced its two mid-range Galaxy smartphones – Galaxy A55 5G and Galaxy A35 5G. A new benchmark listing has a spot for Samsung’s affordable smartphone, Galaxy35 5G.
Samsung is now gearing up for its next affordable Galaxy smartphone, the M35 5G, as the reports are unvunveilhey have found a new benchmark listing for Samsung the Galaxy M35 5G.
The smartphone has been spotted with the model number as an identification code – SM-M356B on the Geekbench 6.2.2 database. Not only this, but it also confirmed the presence of 6GB of RAM and Android 14 OS. The chipset also came to know which is the latest Exynos 1380.
The codename for the motherboard is also mentioned, which is ‘s5e8835.’ The reports say that it has scored 656 and 1967 points in performance scores on the benchmarking platform. Exynos 1380 is the latest chipset of the Korean brand, which is a 5 nm processor. It consists of 4 Cortex A78 cores, which clock at 2.4GHz, and 4 Cortex A55 cores, which clock at 2.0GHz. It is coupled with a Mali g68 MP5 GPU. It also has an AI Engine.
This also offers connectivity options, which include the latest Bluetooth version 5.3 and Wi-Fi 802.11 ax with three bands. It supports a camera resolution of at least 200MP for capturing images, and for video recording, there is support for up to 30fps 4K recording. The storage supported is UFS v3.1, and RAM will be of the LPDDR4x/5 type.
Samsung has recently debuted its two smartphones, Galaxy A55, and Galaxy A35; the Galaxy A35 5G smartphone is powered by Exynos 1380 chipset. From this perspective, Galaxy M35 5G could be a variant of Galaxy A35.
At the moment, no specs and features of the device have been revealed or leaked. Still, since Galaxy M series smartphones usually have a bit higher battery power of at least 6000mAh, the forthcoming Galaxy M35 5G smartphone also arrives with the same battery power.
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Verizon rolls out the March 2024 security patch update for the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 devices
Verizon has rolled out the March 2024 security patch update for the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 devices. Earlier, these devices had received the same update outside the US, but now they are gradually expanding to the US.
The Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 are spotted getting new updates with the firmware version numbers F926USQS5HXBD and F711USQS6HXBD, respectively. It is worth noticing the update is currently available for the devices locked to Verizon, but it will soon be available on more carriers.
For your information, the latest update for Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 doesn’t bring any significant changes, but as it is the latest security patch, it will provide some internal fixes to maintain the security of the devices.
If you are getting some other issues from the last update, you should also update the device to the latest update, as it may also address some issues. Along with the update, other improvements may also be made to enhance the overall performance of the devices.
Suppose you use the Galaxy Z Fold 3 or Flip 3 device in the US. In that case, you can update the device to the latest version by simply going to the system settings and then to the software update. If you haven’t received the update, you should wait for some time, as it may arrive in the next few days.
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Samsung rolls out the March 2024 security patch update for the Galaxy S23 FE devices in the US
Samsung has rolled out the March 2024 security patch to almost all devices but still needs to complete the update distribution to all eligible devices. So, gradually expanding the update to remaining devices, the company has started rolling out the update for the Galaxy S23 FE in the US.
Notably, the Galaxy S23 FE devices are getting a new update in the carrier-unlocked version with the firmware version number S711U1UES2BXBF. The update has already been rolled out to almost all carriers, including AT&T, Bluegrass Cellular, C-Spire, Cellular South, Comcast, Cricket, DISH, MetroPCS, T-Mobile, Tracfone, US Cellular, Verizon, and Xfinity Mobile.
According to the official changelog, the March 2024 security patch is one of the standard maintenance updates that provides some internal improvements for the device, and there will be no visible changes available. In other words, users may experience some improvement in the functioning of devices, but it doesn’t particularly bring any specific changes for the device.
Going to the details, the March 2024 security patch includes more than 40 fixes, 37 of which are provided by Google and address the issues found in the Android OS, while 9 more features are introduced by Samsung that enhance the performance of Galaxy devices exclusively.
Suppose you are using the Galaxy S23 FE in the US. In that case, you can update the devices to the latest version by following the simple steps: first, go to the system settings, tap on the software update, and tap on the download and install button; if it shows a new update available, tap on the download button.