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Here you will find the latest news and most recent developments on the China, with regular updates and all the information you need.
Samsung began the construction of its R&D center in Hanoi, Vietnam, back in March 2020. On Friday, Samsung officially opened the newly constructed R&D center, and VIPs attended the opening ceremony. The R&D center in Vietnam is reportedly the largest facility in the Southeast Asian country set up by a foreign firm. During the opening […]
Samsung’s mobile business will attempt to change its strategy next year to focus more on product competitiveness and less on cost reduction. With this drastic shift in philosophy, the company hopes to bring the fight to Apple and secure its leadership position. The Korean tech giant held an executive meeting with the DX (Device Experience) […]
The global smartphone market isn’t seeing happy numbers due to sluggish demand following the economic downturn and inflation reaching record highs in many countries. Amidst this, a research report by market research firm TrendForce notes that Apple is all set to dethrone South Korean giant Samsung in terms of market share in Q4 2022. According […]
Samsung executives are planning a few company-wide global strategy meetings before the end of the year to discuss the mobile phone and home appliance businesseses, as well as the future of the chip-making division amid the ongoing uncertainties in the macroeconomic environment. Samsung’s Device Experience (DX) division will hold a meeting next week on Thursday […]
You may have probably heard about the recent protests in China. Foxconn employees took to the streets to protest the company for misleading claims on wage increases and other benefits that never came to pass. Most other protests in China are reportedly happening due to recent COVID lockdowns and restrictions. Amid all this, a report […]
Apple is reportedly making changes along the supply chain for parts destined for iPhones in China. And instead of acquiring NAND flash modules from local supplier YMTC (Yangtse Memory Technologies Co), Apple supposedly intends to buy these memory chips for future iPhone models from Samsung. These plans are reportedly set in motion for iPhones to […]
Samsung announced in a blog post that the company received multiple awards at the Consumer Technology Association’s (CTA) CES 2023 Innovation Awards. The CES 2023 Innovation Awards is a program that honors outstanding design and engineering across different consumer technology product categories. 46 Samsung products and services received CES 2023 Innovation Award honors, and three […]
Even though Samsung Display has been experimenting with various form factors and use cases for its state-of-the-art foldable display technology, at least one analyst believes that the company has no interest in developing commercial slidable phones. Furthermore, because Samsung has a tight grip on the foldable phone market as it is, Chinese smartphone manufacturers might […]
Going by the previous trend of Samsung’s mid-range smartphones, the company could launch its new generation devices early next year. The devices usually bagged the necessary certification two months prior to their launch. To throw a few names in, the Galaxy A52 5G picked up 3C certification in January 2021 and was launched in March […]
By now, you’re probably aware that the original Galaxy Fold, announced in April 2019, will not receive the new Android 13-based One UI 5.0 update. And speaking of firmware support, Samsung has now demoted the original Galaxy Fold and Galaxy Fold 5G, as well as the China Telecom-exclusive W21 5G and W22 5G, to quarterly […]
Samsung has released the stable Android 13 and One UI 5.0 update for two of its flagship lineups, and the company is expected to do the same for a handful of other devices before the end of this month. That includes the Galaxy Z Fold 4, which has now taken a step closer to the […]
MediaTek is finally all set to unveil its flagship Dimensity processor for 2023 at an event in China. On November 8, the Taiwanese chip firm will take the wraps off its Dimensity 9200 processor, which has been making the rounds in the rumor mill for quite some time now. An AnTuTu benchmark surfaced last week, showing its […]
The latest report by Counterpoint Research brings some bad news for smartphone brands, including Samsung. The global smartphone market saw a decline of 12% year-over-year in Q3 2022. Thanks to the quarterly growth of Apple and Samsung, the global smartphone market managed to cross the 300 million units mark. The market had failed to reach even […]
Samsung released a couple of new foldable phones in China last week. “New,” in the sense that the W23 series consists of reskinned and rebranded versions of the existing Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Galaxy Z Flip 4, with a bit of a memory upgrade to top it all off. The Samsung W23 series also […]
The one-year permit Samsung and SK Hynix have obtained from the U.S. Department of Commerce to ship chipset technologies to China might not make a difference. Samsung and SK Hynix are still on the fence regarding their investments in China, and they might hold off from spending too many resources over the coming 12 months. […]