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GAA, or Gate All Around, is a transistor structure associated with Samsung’s 3nm process node. It replaces (for Samsung, anyway) the FinFET structure used presently.

Samsung Foundry says that the chip market will remain “tight” as 5G penetrates more market, and demand from High Performance Computing firms remains solid. Additionally, the need for manufacturers to have more chips than needed just in case there is a supply shock from an external event, and outsourcing demand from integrated device manufacturers (ISDMs) who design and build their own chips (like Intel) will keep the assembly lines humming in 2022.

For this year, Samsung expects supply to remain tight due to rising penetration of 5G, solid HPC demand, growing out-sourcing from IDM players and continued needs for securing safety inventory. The Company aims to exceed market growth by expanding capacity at advanced nodes, adjusting prices and adding new customers.

February 24, 2022

Samsung invests another $920 mln in northern plant

Samsung has received permission to invest an additional $920 million in its electronic components plant in the northern province of Thai Nguyen.

The license, awarded to the South Korean’s electronics giant’s Samsung Electro-Mechanics unit, will increase its total registered investment in the province by 68 percent to $2.27 billion.

Samsung, Vietnam’s biggest foreign direct investor, first invested $1.3 billion in the electro-mechanics unit in 2013. The unit produces mainboards and other electronics components.

As of last year, Samsung had invested $18 billion in Vietnam. It has six plants in the country and is building a new research and development center in Hanoi.

February 18, 2022

Samsung invests another $920 mln in northern plant

Samsung has received permission to invest an additional $920 million in its electronic components plant in the northern province of Thai Nguyen.

The license, awarded to the South Korean’s electronics giant’s Samsung Electro-Mechanics unit, will increase its total registered investment in the province by 68 percent to $2.27 billion.

Samsung, Vietnam’s biggest foreign direct investor, first invested $1.3 billion in the electro-mechanics unit in 2013. The unit produces main boards and other electronics components.

As of last year, Samsung had invested $18 billion in Vietnam. It has six plants in the country and is building a new research and development center in Hanoi.

February 17, 2022

Over 90 pct of Samsung, Intel workers return to work after Tet

Major factories in Ho Chi Minh City reported over 90 percent of employees returning to work after the nine-day Tet holiday, abating employer concerns of a labor shortage.

Some factories with high return rates are Samsung electronics manufacturer HCMC CE Complex (95 percent) and motor parts maker Nidec Sankyo (94 percent). Other manufacturers like Intel and Jabil also reported a return rate of over 90 percent.

Eight factories in Saigon Hi-tech Park of Thu Duc City, which utilize over 45,000 employees, reported between 80 percent and 95 percent of workers returning to work Tuesday after the annual Lunar New Year’s holiday Tet, according to park data.

Over 17 industrial zones and manufacturing areas where 273,000 employees work posted a return of 82 percent.

The high return rate is considered a relief to HCMC employers who, before the holiday, had expected a shortage of workers after Tet as many preferred to stay in their hometown.

Tet, Vietnam’s biggest national holiday, is a time when workers of large industrial parks leave en masse for their hometowns for family renuions.

Some factories of Vinatex, one of the biggest garment companies in Vietnam, posted a worker return rate of 100 percent as the company started off the year three days before the holiday ended to meet the surge in order numbers.

Pou Yuen, footwear maker and biggest employer in HCMC, is expected to see its return ratio rising from 64 percent Monday to 90 percent Wednesday.

February 9, 2022

Soon we may be using more secure payment cards thanks to Samsung

Samsung has announced the S3B512C security chip, its new fingerprint security chip developed in partnership with Mastercard, designed primarily for payment cards. According to the company, the chip is the ‘industry’s first all-in-one security chip solution’ and would be able to provide faster and safer interactions while making purchases. Because Samsung’s chip uses biometric authentication, the chip would also remove the need to enter your PIN code on a keypad.

The S3B512C chip has a fingerprint sensor as well as a tamper-proof secure element (SE) that meets international security requirements, and a secure processor. The chip captures the user’s biometric data via its fingerprint sensor. Then, using the SE, it stores and authenticates the received information. After that, the chip analyzes the data by using its secure processor.

With its biometric authentication, Samsung’s security chip may prevent fraudulent transactions which could otherwise be made with lost or stolen traditional cards. Because it has securely saved the owner’s fingerprint, a card using Samsung’s chip will check if the person performing the transaction is indeed the rightful owner. The chip also utilizes anti-spoofing technology, which prevents unauthorized users from fooling the security system using tactics such as artificial fingerprints.

According to Samsung, although the S3B512C chip is primarily designed for payment cards, it could also be used in cards intended for highly secure authentication, such as student or employee access cards. In addition, by utilizing a fingerprint sensor, a tamper-proof secure element, and a secure processor, the S3B512C may assist card makers in reducing the number of required chips in manufacturing biometric payment cards and might help optimize card design processes.

Although Samsung’s new security chip sounds very promising, currently, there is no information on when Mastercard will implement Samsung’s new chip.

Currently, Mastercard offers fingerprint-authenticated payment cards, but they are not as secure as the new Samsung chip and don’t use anti-spoofing technology.

January 26, 2022

Samsung is first in the world to invent MRAM in-memory computing

Samsung has long been at the forefront of tech innovation, both when it comes to mobile technology and other electronics. The Korean giant just re-affirmed that fact this week, when they became the first company in the world to demonstrate a working in-memory computing process on MRAM.

In devices like smartphones and computers, most of the computing processes are performed by the processing chip, which exists just for this purpose and is highly efficient at it—despite additionally being one of the most power-hungry components.

A device’s memory (or RAM) on the other hand, bears the traditional purpose of temporarily storing bits of information for the processor to access immediately, anytime it asks for it.

This memory allows for much faster data transfer with the processor than a storage drive, but also comes in much smaller quantities—such as 4GB, 6GB, or 8GB or 16GB depending on your traditional computing device.

For years now, however, there has been plenty of experimentation with the quest to come up with an efficient and practical in-memory computing solution.

While many other solutions have already been found using alternative types of RAM (such as PRAM or RRAM), as SamMobile notes, MRAM in-memory computing had not yet been prototyped in working form. At least until now, when Samsung has finally managed to create the first prototype.

Most of the computing devices we interact with from day to day—namely smartphones and computers—run with DRAM, or Dynamic Random Access Memory, as their main memory.

This type of memory is dynamic and volatile, meaning it only stores information as long as the device is powered on with a current flowing through, and it needs to be constantly refreshed or overwritten in order to retain that data.

MRAM, on the other hand—Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory—is a type of non-volatile memory, meaning it can retain bits of data even without an electric current flowing through. It stores memory on magnetic charges, rather than electric charges like standard RAM.

MRAM’s main advantage is its extremely low power usage, although it has faced difficulties in practical integration in modern everyday technology, such as keeping write error rates adequately low. It is also more hostile to in-memory computing than DRAM because of its low resistance.

Samsung’s in-house MRAM, built for the first computer to ever use it as its main memory

The main appeal of in-memory computing as a rule, is that it allows for substantial savings of both time and power. A system that performs at least part of its computing inside the memory, will end up saving all of those milliseconds which it would otherwise take for that data to be requested by the processor, travel to the processor, and be processed there.

Memory also takes significantly less power than a processing chip—which is responsible for a whole slew of tasks at any given time—which is why a device using in-memory computing will also save on energy.

Samsung believes that once further developed, MRAM technology will truly shine in processing tasks for artificial intelligence. When tested in AI applications, Samsung demonstrated that its in-memory computing process produced a 93% success rate in picking out specific faces in images, and 98% accuracy in its ability to recognize handwritten numbers.

One of the main authors of Samsung’s research paper, Dr. Seungchul Jung, made the following statement:

“In-memory computing draws similarity to the brain in the sense that in the brain, computing also occurs within the network of biological memories, or synapses, the points where neurons touch one another. In fact, while the computing performed by our MRAM network for now has a different purpose from the computing performed by the brain, such solid-state memory network may in the future be used as a platform to mimic the brain by modeling the brain’s synapse connectivity.”

Samsung hopes that this new invention will be revolutionary in increasing the power efficiency in AI chips more than was ever considered possible before.

January 14, 2022

Exynos 2200 finally has a reveal date

Samsung has finally announced a date for the reveal of the in-house Exynos 2200 chip that will likely power the Galaxy S22 series.

Samsung and AMD have been working on a GPU for quite some time and it will be integrated into the South Korean giant’s next flagship chip. According to a new rumor, the GPU itself will be called the Xclipse 920.

The company has confirmed that the RDNA 2-powered chip will be unveiled on January 11, which is also when the Galaxy S21 FE is rumored to go on sale.

Samsung has steadily been upping its chip game. Last year, it embraced Arm’s CPU designs, and now, the AMD-made GPU will take care of the graphics. Whether the new Exynos chip will live up to the hype is a whole different question.

Qualcomm claims that its new chip offers 20 percent faster CPU capabilities and 30 percent better graphics when compared to the Snapdragon 888. Although the Exynos 2200 is expected to have the same core architecture as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 which will fuel the American variants of the Galaxy S22, it may lag behind in performance.

Per a recent leak, Samsung’s new SoC will offer a 5 percent improvement in CPU performance and a 17 percent increase in graphics when compared to the Exynos 2100 that powers the Galaxy S21 range. That’s not necessarily a cause for concern, because the same leak says that artificial intelligence performance will improve by a staggering 117 percent.

Although today’s premium phones are plenty fast already, we are still curious to see how the Exynos 2200 will stack up against the flagship chips that power the top phones of 2021. Samsung will allegedly announce the Galaxy S22 series in February.

December 31, 2021

Microsoft to partner with Samsung over HoloLens 3 development

This summer, Samsung has apparently entered into a partnership with Microsoft over its HoloLens augmented reality project, and the two companies are expected to work on the next generation of the VR headgear for at least two years.

Microsoft already has a strong partnership with Samsung over preinstalled Office Mobile and other apps on the handsets of the world’s largest phone maker, so taking advantage of its hardware expertise could only be beneficial, too.

Back in March, Samsung reportedly assembled a task force to probe the viability of the HoloLens partnership, involving multiple departments and has subsequently been given the green light to take on the challenge to be Microsoft’s AT/VR gear maker.

Commercialization of Microsoft’s HoloLens wearable that takes advantage of Samsung’s engineering prowess will happen after the end of the development contract, in 2024, report the insiders. Samsung’s purchase of AR company DigiLens, along with its display expertise may be what prompted Microsoft to partner with it over the next HoloLens endeavor.

DigiLens was known for its waveguide technology “used to bend the light from the video playing on a display to the glasses, which is transparent in AR display devices as users need to see the real surrounding around them simultaneously with the virtual items on display.”

This strongly suggests that the HoloLens 3 may be conceived as a direct answer to the purported Apple Glasses AR/VR headset which is expected to land as soon as next year. Microsoft sold about 200,000 HoloLens 2 devices this year, and it will have to pour a lot of resources to make the third edition stand out as not only Apple, but also Facebook’s Meta, are expected to release their own augmented reality contraptions very soon.

December 8, 2021

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