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Samsung holds its position as the world’s largest semiconductor industry
Besides the Galaxy Smartphones, Samsung-manufactured Semiconductors were also praised by many out there and have gained plenty of admirers separately. Informatively, Samsung Semiconductors lends innovative solutions such as SSD, DRAM, Processors, and Image Sensors to the market. As per recent reports, Samsung Semiconductors is still the world’s largest semiconductor company despite seeing a 10.8% yearly decline.
As per Omdia’s analysis, the semiconductor market reached its all-time high in the year 2022, when the market gained a total revenue of $595.7B, which was just $592.8B in the year 2021. However, the Semiconductor market has declined in the four quarters but still managed to get more revenue than the last year. In 4Q22, the market has seen a 9% of QoQ decline, with a revenue of $132.4B, which is just 82% of 4Q21’s $161.1B revenue.
As for Samsung, in the year 2022, they have gained $67,055 in revenue, with a YoY decline of 10.8%. In the year 2021, Samsung’s revenue was $75,208, which is more than this year’s. Intel is in second place, behind Samsung, with $60,810 in revenue. Samsung’s native SoC provider (for flagships), Qualcomm, has secured third place here. Notably, the overall Semiconductor market has grown by 0.5% as compared to the last year, 2021.
DRAM Senior Principal Analyst Lino Jeng has stated the manner of the quarter 4th 2022’s decline, which is said to be the biggest decline in the current downturn. He said, “the fourth quarter of 2022; prices fell significantly due to suppliers’ attempts to expand sales to reduce excess inventory. Omdia expects this trend to continue in the first quarter of this year.”
Samsung Display has established a new R&D team dedicated to developing OLED products for Apple.
According to reports from China, Samsung Display created a new R&D team specifically to develop OLED products for Apple, titled the team ‘A Team.” It is a part of Samsung’s Giheung Research Institute in South Korea.
Undoubtedly, Apple is an immensely essential customer for Samsung Display, and up until currently, SDC has been the leading provider of OLED displays for Apple. This move seems like an interesting one by SDC. In a way, the giant is grabbing the majority of orders for iPhone AMOLEDs.
However, Apple is setting up to embrace OLEDs in IT products, starting with tablets, which are turning things around. If the reports are to be believed, LG Display is Apple’s main provider of iPad AMOLEDs for first-generation devices, as the brand has greater experience with collective OLED architectures.
The Korean giant has been struggling to boost the production of such panels. It is also feeling pressure from China-based AMOLED producers, which are increasing their production capabilities and starting to win Apple display orders. It will be quite interesting to see whether SDC introduces technologies exclusively for Apple or if they just want to accelerate their OLED R&D for all their customers, which include Samsung itself.
It is reported that Apple is aiming to replace all of its IT displays with OLEDs over the next few years, which include tablets, laptops, and monitors. On the other hand, Apple itself is setting up its OLED-related technology.
Samsung has introduced the One UI 6.1 update with the Galaxy S24 devices. With this update, the company has introduced several new Galaxy AI features, including Circle to search, transcript assist, chat assist, live call translation, and many more.
Later, the company expanded the One UI 6.1 to more Galaxy devices, including the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23 FE, Galaxy Z Fold 5, and Galaxy Z Flip 5, and moved forward. The company has already announced that it will provide the One UI 6.1 with Galaxy AI features for the 2022 flagship smartphones, and it has confirmed its intention to distribute more eligible devices. However, a question arises: will it provide Galaxy AI features to every One UI 6.1 eligible device or not? Let’s find out.
Samsung Galaxy AI features are available for Galaxy devices
Only the 2022 flagship devices will receive the Galaxy AI feature, as Samsung has already confirmed its provision for nearly all flagship devices. However, the latest developments have left some devices, such as the Galaxy S21 series, including the Fan Edition version, the Galaxy Z Fold 3, and the Galaxy Z Flip 3, without any AI features except Circle for search. Along with this, there are several non-flagship devices that are eligible to get the UI 6.1 update, but the company hasn’t confirmed the availability of the Galaxy AI feature for them.
The recent release of Galaxy A55, 5G, and Galaxy A35 devices also confirms the statement that they debuted in the market with the One UI 6.1 update, but they haven’t received any Galaxy AI features, which indicates that the company may not provide the Galaxy AI feature to non-flagship devices.
These Galaxy devices may get One UI 6.1 without any Galaxy AI features
We have compiled a list of devices expected to receive OneUI 6.1 updates without the AI feature, based on our speculations:
Galaxy A series: Galaxy A73, Galaxy A72, Galaxy A53, Galaxy A52, Galaxy A52s, Galaxy A34, Galaxy A33, Galaxy A25, Galaxy A24, Galaxy A23, Galaxy A15, Galaxy A14, Galaxy A13, Galaxy A05s, Galaxy A04, and Galaxy A04s.
Galaxy M series: Galaxy M54, Galaxy M53, Galaxy M33, and Galaxy M23
Galaxy F series: Galaxy F54, Galaxy F23, and Galaxy F14
Galaxy XCover series: Galaxy XCover 5 Pro, Galaxy XCover 6 Pro, and Galaxy XCover 7
Galaxy Tab series: Galaxy Tab S9 FE, Galaxy Tab S9 FE+, Galaxy Tab A7 Lite
Will midrange Galaxy devices get Galaxy AI features in the next update?
In addition to its Galaxy flagship devices, Samsung is also prioritizing the development of advanced features for some midrange smartphones, including the Galaxy AI feature. However, due to hardware limitations, optimizing this feature may take some time, depending on the capabilities of the devices. Given the high-spec devices recently released, it’s possible that the company will introduce the Galaxy AI feature in the upcoming major updates.
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A new Samsung Galaxy Fan Edition named Galaxy S24 FE is in the works, and now the giant appears to be developing an ‘Exynos 2400+’ to power the forthcoming Galaxy S24 FE devices.
Samsung introduced the Exynos 2400 a couple of months ago and powered several Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+ versions. Distinct from previous Exynos models, the Exynos 2400 performs well against competitors such as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 A17 Pro. Similar to Qualcomm’s strategy, Samsung could release a mid-year upgrade, the Exynos 2400+, for the forthcoming Galaxy S24 FE.
According to a post on X by @kro_roe, Samsung’s new Exynos 2400+ is a new AP that will power the Galaxy S24 FE, offering improvements in power efficiency and yield by about 5% to 10%.
Samsung may launch a campaign to assist consumers in distinguishing between the regular Exynos 2400 and the upcoming Exynos 2400+. We expect the brand-new Exynos 2400+ to prioritize enhanced power efficiency and potentially provide additional benefits. However, the tipster also revealed that the Exynos 2400+ yield will improve. The higher yield points towards the Korean foundry, which can produce more chipsets from a single wafer, decreasing the total number of manufactured wafers and lowering the overall cost.
However, the Exynos 2400 processor powering the Galaxy S24 series performed well. If the reports come true and the GalaxyS24 FE also uses the cooling solution, the rumored Eynos 2400+ might perform just as well in terms of power efficiency and likely other areas.