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Samsung Foundry gearing up to make its debut in the GPU industry
Samsung Electronics is playing with new strategies as it teases investment to get into the GPU market. The giant has recently approved an investment in the GPU business, suggesting that it is looking forward to making its debut in the GPU industry.
Reports of Samsung’s intention to build GPUs come into existence in its FY 2023 Corporate Government Report, which hits a March 19, 2024, meeting of its Management Committee during which “Investment in GPU Business” was approved. One possibility is that it is readying its foundry business to build GPUs. Samsung is the world’s second-largest foundry business by revenue, behind TSMC.
However, it could be possible that Samsung’s GPU investment might be about building them for others, not necessarily making their own. As a major foundry already, the Korean giant could be gearing up to expand its services to include building GPUs. This would benefit other brands, such as NVIDIA, by offering another manufacturing option, especially considering the current high demand for AI and the potential risks associated with TSMC’s location.
Building its GPUs for smartphone devices is another probability. Samsung already bakes GPUs into its Exynos SoCs, but its latest model, the 2400, includes an Xclipse 940 GPU built on AMD’s RDNA 3 architecture. The Korean giant uses Exynos silicon in several devices but generally integrates its silicon and Qualcomm’s across its range of flagship Galaxy S devices. The report from Korean media suggests that Samsung will debut its Exynos in 2025, which will outperform Qualcomm’s chips.
The other rumor hints that 2026’s Exynos models will add a Samsung-developed GPU. The reason behind this decision appears to be a new strategic move to gain more control over its device hardware. Somewhere, it seems that it can’t replicate control over both the hardware and software of Apple completely because it relies on Android. However, it is possible that building their GPUs would permit the brand to better customize their devices. This could lead to improvements in areas such as on-device AI and mobile gaming performance.
Building premium GPUs is a tough challenge; making compatible parts to work with Nvidia’s software (CUDA) could be an option, although Nvidia would potentially fight back legally stronger against Samsung as compared to Chinese companies.
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Samsung Officially Confirms Launch Date for Galaxy Z Fold 6, Flip 6, Watch 7, Ultra, and Buds3
Finally, Samsung confirmed the final date of the next Galaxy Unpacked event on July 10 in Paris. Let’s take a closer look at the details of the event.
We have already reported the teased Galaxy Unpacked event date, and the report has come true. Samsung is all set to hold one of its biggest events this year, the Galaxy Unpacked Event 2024. The brand is obsessed with hosting the Unpacked event in different cities and countries, and this time it has chosen Paris as the venue.
At the event, Samsung will launch a bunch of the latest Galaxy devices, including the sixth-generation foldable phone, the Galaxy Z Fold 6, and the Galaxy Z Flip 6. The brand will also debut its ever-first smart wearable Ring and Ultra watch, named Galaxy Ring and Galaxy Watch Ultra, respectively. Apart from these, the next-generation Galaxy Buds 3 series and the Galaxy Watch 7.
The Korean giant will host the unpacked event right before the 2024 Summer Olympics’ opening ceremony, and this will be one of the busiest unpacked events ever. The interesting part of the event, apart from the latest Galaxy products, will be its AI-powered tools. It will introduce more Galaxy AI features on the upcoming foldable devices. Samsung has already confirmed that it will bring AI-powered features to its wearable devices.
Samsung will live stream the Galaxy Unpacked event on its website, newsroom portals, and YouTube. The event will kick off at 3 p.m. CEST (6 a.m. PDT, 9 a.m. EDT, and 6:30 p.m. IST).
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Samsung has partnered with Likewize to expand its repair bus service to more regions across Germany. The brand is looking forward to expanding its bus service to almost every city by the end of this year.
Five years ago, Samsung ran a “Repair Bus” service in Germany, basically a repair center on wheels. Finally, now again, the brand is bringing it back with plans for a near country-wide expansion. For more details, Samsung Repair Buses are mobile workshops fully equipped with the essential tools and spare parts to perform repairs as soon as possible at the client’s address.
It’s a quite beneficial service that charges only a €20 premium fee; it can also deliver professional services at the client’s address, fluctuating from maintenance, support, and data backup to Galaxy phone battery and display replacements. By this time, somehow the reach of the brand’s repair bus service in Germany had been limited. Now, to expand the services, the giant is planning to stretch the availability of the Repair Bus to more German cities, which include Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, and Cologne.
The Korean giant stated that repair buses will be available in the 15 largest cities of the country by the end of this year (2024), and by the end of next year (2025), the service will stretch to every city in Germany that has over 20,000 inhabitants. Interested customers can book a Samsung repair bus from the Smart Repair Service website. Apart from the €20 premium service fee, damage covered by the warranty is repaired free of charge.
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Samsung is undoubtedly a diverse firm and one of the leading brands in the tech market. Now it is aggressively setting up to bring the latest and most unique designs for its next-gen smart wearable devices, named the Galaxy Buds 3 and Galaxy Ring.
Samsung is about to launch its Galaxy Buds 3 and Galaxy Ring at the Galaxy Unpacked event on July 10th. Both of these wearable devices are expected to be bold, stylish, and sporty, unlike anything Samsung has done before, thanks to Samsung’s new design chief, Hubert H. Lee, who previously worked at Mercedes. The report on X shared by a well-reliable tipster suggests that the upcoming Galaxy Buds 3 will have an innovative, almost ‘Cyberpunk,’ look.
Hubert H. Lee is an ex-Mercedes’ designer who joined Samsung back in December 2022. The Korean giant believes that Lee’s expertise will help bring a new look and feel to Galaxy products. The current Galaxy wearables, such as the Galaxy Buds FE and Galaxy Buds Watch 6, were not specifically innovative in design. It seems that maybe this is due to the designs being finalized before Lee joined Samsung in late 2022.
Now it appears that Lee’s design influence will be more prominent in future Samsung products, especially wearables. The leaked renders of the upcoming Galaxy Watch Ultra suggest that it has a very different design than Samsung’s previous models combining a square form factor with a circular screen. If the reports are to be believed, the Galaxy Buds 3 and Buds 3 Pro wireless earbuds completely feature a different design than previous variants. These buds could be equipped with a “Blade Light” LED light strip that shines in certain scenarios.
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