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The US Government Could Grant $6 Billion to Samsung For Raising Chip Production
Samsung, the biggest chip manufacturer, is getting a $6 million grant from the US for chip plants, as reports are saying.
The Korean firm is the largest chip maker in the industry, and to maintain the legacy, the giants are planning to make advanced semiconductor chips in the U.S. To turn Samsung’s plan into a success, the US government decided to help the firm.
If the reports are to be believed, they suggest that the U.S. plans to award more than $6 billion to the Korean Electronics firm, just for helping the chipmaker expand beyond a project in Texas. In addition, reports indicate that the initial estimate for the construction of the chip plant in Taylor was $17 billion, but it has now escalated to over $25 billion.
The Korean firm, similar to the rest of the chip manufacturers, such as Intel, has been anticipating funds from the U.S. government via its CHIPS Act to raise advanced semiconductor chip production in the United States.
To be noted, regarding this matter, the government appears pretty loose, as it has been slow in releasing those funds. On the other hand, the tough competitor of Samsung, named TSMC, is this close to receiving a $5 billion fund from the US government.
As per the diplomatic tensions between the governments of these two countries—China and the US—the US has decided to attract chip producers to build their chip plants in the US. Despite the deficiency of enough quality talent and rising building costs, chip producers have been finding it hard to keep up with their words.
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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Samsung announced its plan in the expansion of its plan to re-imagine mobile device security for business customers in collaboration with IBM.
The Korean brand ‘Samsung’ and IBM are partnering to enhance mobile security for businesses. Samsung Knox data integrated with IBM’s QRadar security system offers security teams a central view of mobile threats across the organization. Security analysts can identify and respond to smartphone threats quickly.
It seems that this new partnership runs more securely and without compromising user privacy. Increasingly, organizations’ IT and security teams are seeking to adopt a zero-trust framework. Samsung Knox offers SOCs with differentiated capabilities to ensure centralized visibility into mobile devices and their vulnerabilities and access to on-device danger detection to alert security observers early in the attack chain.
Typically, security struggles with random data from different gadgets, making danger detection and response difficult. Samsung and IBM are collaborating to merge Samsung Knox with IBM’s QRadar security system, which will surely enhance and add an extra layer of security. Security teams have the power to see threats across all Galaxy devices in one place. This new collaboration will enhance visibility and help organizations prevent security issues before they happen.
The Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mobile B2B, Samsung Electronics America, Brad Haczynski, stated that “Samsung Knox has been consistently recognized as the industry’s leading mobile device security platform* due to our comprehensive approach to protecting devices at the hardware and software levels. Working with IBM, we are excited to extend the power of the platform to SOCs to address the increasingly complex threats organizations are facing today.”