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Samsung, SK Hynix to Benefit from US CHIPS and Science Act Guardrails, Despite China Restrictions
According to industry officials and experts, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix appear to feel assured over the US CHIPS and Science Act’s safeguards, as the regulation, which aims to restrict China’s chip development technology, limits the expansion of advanced semiconductor production capacity to no more than 5 percent in China. The Act comprises a guardrail clause to prevent the subsidies’ benefits from moving to China, but it also offers a total of $39 billion in subsidies for semiconductor manufacture and incentivizes chip manufacturers to produce chips in the US. It is essential to note that SK Hynix has facilities in Wuxi and Dalian, and Samsung Electronics has semiconductor manufacturing in Xi’an and Suzhou in China.
China is an important region for both of them, as they generate nearly half of their worldwide DRAM chips and around 40% of their NAND flash in particular. These efforts to ease the limits on manufacturing growth should grow further as the worst-case scenario of Korean chipmakers being unable to conduct their business in China has been avoided, which was agreed upon by the experts and authorities. The Korean government and local chip makers have pushed for the growth of advanced semiconductor output to be doubled from 5% ever since the drought was announced in March of last year.
Further, they lobbied for a more lenient norm for legacy chips, which are made using outdated equipment. These demands haven’t been complied with, though. Since manufacturing quantities vary depending on market conditions, the guardrails altered the definition of chip production capacity from the number of wafers per month to the number of wafers per year as per the March draft. The final guardrails of the Act were announced by the U.S. Department of Commerce on September 22. Through this, chip companies that receive subsidies in the U.S. are prohibited from increasing production by more than 5% for cutting-edge chips and 10% for older technology in foreign nations, including China.
Companies that produce chips must repay any Washington-provided subsidies if they increase output above what is allowed in China. The March draft was mostly followed by the guardrails announced on September 22. Kim Dae-jong, a professor of business administration at Sejong University, claimed that Korean businesses and the government benefited from the guardrails.
Kim states that it is a fortuitous decision that Samsung and SK will be able to increase the production of advanced semiconductors in their Chinese facilities by 5 percent. Among the total exports of Korea, semiconductors account for 20 percent, and 60 percent of chip exports go to China and Hong Kong. Neither the government nor the domestic companies can afford to abandon the Chinese market, and the announcement means that trade with China can at least be maintained.”
Samsung brings a mesmerizing feature named ‘Super HDR’ to enhance the shooting and viewing of photos and videos experience for its newly launched Galaxy S24 series. Now it seems that the giant could add a button to turn off Super HDR on Instagram.
Super HDR is a feature that captures images and videos in a new format, based on Google’s Ultra HDR format. It delivers photos that are pretty bright in particular areas and have more detailed shadows when viewed on compatible displays.
However, despite many facilities, some people don’t prefer how Super-HDR works while viewing images and videos onInstagram. Now, as per their request, Samsung is looking for a way to permit users to turn off Super HDR.
The reports reveal that Samsung is looking forward to offering a toggle button to disable or enable Super HDR inside Instagram. This is because some people prefer and want to avoid how Super HDR images and video display (width, higher brightness, color volume, and wider dynamic range) while scrolling Instagram.
It is being speculated by one of the South Korean firm’s official forum moderators that the company is setting up with Instagram to bring a toggle to disable or enable Super HDR, similar to a toggle that is already housed in the OS version of Instagram.
Super HDR is based on Google’s Ultra HDR and captures photos and videos with vibrant colors and more balanced lightning. You can easily catch the difference in both the camera preview and the final results. After uploading the content on Instagram, the super HDR effects will be maintained for a more vivid viewing experience. Then users scroll through images and videos in Super HDR on Instagram, and the display brightens up to match the tone map of the Super HDR file, but some of them don’t prefer the sudden brightness of the screen as they complain regarding this on social media. Now it appears that Samsung is working on it.
Samsung debuted the ‘Circle to Search by Google’ feature on the Galaxy S24 series as part of the Galaxy AI package. It has been a couple of months since the debut of the ‘Circle to Search’ feature, which is still a hot topic in the tech industry. Now this feature is expected to arrive on Galaxy Book and Galaxy Chromebook laptops and PCs.
Samsung exclusively launched the Circle to Search feature on the Galaxy S24 series, then expanded it to more Galaxy devices, including the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S22, and other phones, along with the One UI 6.1 update. Now Google is setting up to bring it to the Chrome web browser on desktop operating systems; somewhere, this points out the probability that it could come to the Galaxy Book, Galaxy Chromebook laptops, and PCs.
At the moment, Google Chrome for desktop features Google Lens to search for text and images on the screen engine. Google seems to be working on the Circle to Search-like UI for the web browser. This is being speculated by a post on X shared by a tipster (via SamMobile) who mentioned that the new Lens UI in Chrome now has a new animation that appears like a familiar feature, ‘Circle to Search’, given that it is expected that this feature will be in Chrome’s version of “Circle to Search.”
While clicking the Google Lens extension, a Circle to Search-like UI will appear, and then you can click and drag using the mouse pointer to draw around the text or image you want to search on the screen. After circling the content you want to search for on the screen, the selected part will be highlighted in a rounded rectangular shape.
The Korean brand ‘Samsung’ is gearing up to begin the mass production of their next-generation phone chipset using a cutting-edge 3nm manufacturing process.
Samsung, in collaboration with Synopsys, a design automation company, has successfully taped out the high-end mobile SoC. This chipset will be built using a cutting-edge 3nm process with ‘gate-all-around’ (GAA) technology; this is the first time Samsung has used this process for a mobile processor.
Initially, Samsung began GAA-based 3-nm mass production in June 2022 and registered its name as the first giant to use this process in the industry. This will be the brand’s first-time mass-producing mobile APs using the 3-nm GAA process. The mobile AP that was mass-produced is presumed to be the “Exynos 2500.”
We already reported that the Galaxy S25 Ultra is rumored to use the Exynos 2500 chipset. Now again, the new report says that, designed by Samsung’s System LSI division, the Exynos 2500 is expected to power the forthcoming flagship Galaxy S25 smartphone model. It is reported that the Exynos 2500 will be a mass-producer by the end of this year using the second-generation 3-nm process, which is Samsung’s leading-edge technology.
Previously, the Korean giant reintroduced Exynos chipsets to the Galaxy S24 series for the very first time in two years. Samsung’s Galaxy S22 series debuted in 2022 and arrived with the Exynos 2200, but unfortunately experienced low performance and overheating issues. After the failure of the Exynos 2200, the giant subsequent Exynos 2300 project was abruptly canceled, and the entire Galaxy S23 series was equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
Although Samsung introduced its Exynos 2400 and attached it to the newly launched Galaxy S24 base and Plus variants.
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