08/10/2011
Dow Jones Newswires – San Francisco Bureau
SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Inc. said a German court has ruled that a tablet computer made by Samsung Electronics Co. cannot be sold in most of the European Union, the latest turn in a patent fight between the two companies.
The preliminary injunction bars Samsung from distributing its Galaxy Tab 10.1 [...]
08/08/2011
Light Reading
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea: SEC) wants to be a player in the European LTE infrastructure market.
The Korean vendor’s opening gambit will be a trial of its LTE gear at a multinational European operator later this year, and it’s hoping to win its first LTE commercial contract in Europe in 2012, an ambition [...]
05/06/2011
IDG News Service – New York Bureau
IDG News Service – AT&T Wireless and Samsung Mobile announced the thin and light Infuse 4G smartphone during a press event Thursday in New York.
The phone is 8.99 millimeters (0.35 inches) thick — a fraction thinner than Apple’s iPhone 4 — and has a 4.5-inch Super AMOLED display, [...]
04/22/2011
Associated Press (AP)
Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Tab, left, is displayed with at an advertising board, at the headquarters of South Korean mobile carrier KT in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 22, 2011.
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. says it sued Apple Inc. for patent rights violations, only days after Apple sued Samsung for the same reason.(AP [...]
04/18/2011
Dow Jones Newswires – Seoul Bureau
SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. is considering selling its money-losing hard-disk-drive business to raise cash to invest in new growth areas, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Samsung is looking to sell the unit for $1.5 billion, but it may consider a deal under $1 billion, the person said.
A [...]
04/05/2011
EE Times Online
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Texas Instruments Inc. has updated its leading-edge digital foundry strategy-and slammed Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s foundry efforts in the process.
For its current applications processor-the OMAP 4-TI has three foundry partners building the 40-nm device: Globalfoundries Inc., Samsung Electronics, and United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC).
Recently, TI rolled out the [...]
01/2011
Bloomberg – Seoul Bureau
April 1 (Bloomberg) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s second-largest mobile-phone maker, aims to become one of the three biggest producers of network gear in four years by tapping demand for new equipment that can handle data faster.
“In terms of revenue and the number of contracts, we’re trying to break into [...]
03/22/2011
Forbes – Online
When Steve Jobs misquoted a Samsung executive at the early March launch of the iPad 2, Samsung declined to comment on the slight. Instead, it rapidly redesigned its tablets to be even thinner than Apple’s widely-admired device. On Monday, when Samsung unveiled the new tablets at the CTIA Wireless trade show in Orlando, [...]
03/09/2011
EE Times
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Rumors are running rampant that Apple Inc. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) are expanding their foundry ties-a possible blow for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
With little or no fanfare, Apple and TSMC have recently entered into a foundry relationship, sources said. As reported, TSMC will make the A5 [...]
16/2011
ZDNet News
At Mobile World Congress, the chips that power mobile devices are getting as much attention as the gadgets themselves. Over the past week Broadcom, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have announced new chips that look more like PC processors.
Mobile World Congress, the mega-conference taking place in Barcelona this week, is all [...]
