Latest System LSI news

Exynos 1330, Exynos 1380 5nm chips go official with faster performance

Samsung has finally announced its new mid-range Exynos processors for Galaxy A smartphones. While the company had mentioned the Exynos 1330 during the Galaxy A14 5G launch last month, it did not fully reveal its specifications and capabilities. Now, the company has released that information along with the features of the Exynos 1380. Both new […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
1 month ago

Samsung components account for over 50% of Pixel 7 Pro’s material cost

Google’s newest Pixel smartphones—Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro—use many components made by Samsung. The company uses the South Korean firm’s display panel, camera sensors, and connectivity components. Even the processor inside the Pixel 7 series is co-developed and manufactured by Samsung. A new report from market research firm Counterpoint Research reveals exactly how much […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Samsung hires former Qualcomm VP who is a semiconductor expert

Samsung has been on a hiring spree of top executives from reputed companies in the last few months. About a week ago, we reported that Samsung had hired two former Ericsson executives to its Samsung Networks team. Last December, Samsung roped in an ex-Mercedes designer, Hubert H. Lee, to lead its smartphone design team. Now, […]

By Sagar Naresh
2 months ago

Samsung announces Q4 2022 earnings, profit hits eight-year low

Earlier this month, Samsung published its earnings guidance for Q4 2022. In line with those numbers, the company has published its final Q4 2022 and FY 2022 results. The company’s profit has been the lowest in eight years, and that is due to the continued global economic downturn, rising costs, and lower demand for smartphones […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Samsung to use Snapdragon chips until in-house processors are ready for prime time

It has been rumored over the past year that Samsung will exclusively use a Snapdragon processor in the Galaxy S23 series. A few months ago, a Qualcomm executive confirmed that its processors would power more Galaxy smartphones in the future. Now, a report claims that Samsung will keep using Snapdragon chips until its improved Exynos […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Samsung will continue to use special Snapdragon chip next year

For the first time in history, Samsung will use a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset in all its Galaxy S series smartphones (Galaxy S23) sold worldwide. And this change comes after years of disappointments with its in-house Exynos processors. However, Samsung isn’t using the same Snapdragon chip everyone else uses. The South Korean firm will use a […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Sony led smartphone camera sensor market, Samsung also faired well

Apple is one brand that doesn’t reveal much about the internals of its iPhones, other than the hardware that is built in-house. For the first time ever, Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted that the company has been using Sony’s camera sensors in iPhones for over a decade. Well, that has helped Sony’s smartphone camera business register […]

By Sagar Naresh
2 months ago

Samsung’s profit nosedives 70% in Q4 2022 due to low chip, smartphone sales

Samsung has tough times ahead, similar to many other consumer electronic firms, including Apple. The South Korean firm announced its earnings guidance for Q4 2022, and according to the company’s internal estimates, its operating profit would be around KRW 4.3 trillion (around $3.37 billion) from total revenue of around KRW 70 trillion (around $55 billion). […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
3 months ago

Samsung expects profits from semiconductor business to be halved in 2023

Samsung’s Device Solutions (DS) division, which operates Samsung Foundry, System LSI, and Memory Division, is expecting its operating profit in 2023 to be around KRW 13.1 trillion, reports South Korean publication The Elec. Reportedly, the figure was shared by the company in a note sent to its employees on Wednesday. While 2023 is looking bad […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
3 months ago

Samsung might stop using Exynos chips in its phones forever

Samsung’s smartphone business is managed by the company’s Mobile eXperience (MX) division, while the Exynos chipsets are designed by the System LSI, a completely different division. Samsung’s smartphone business division has reportedly formed a completely new team for designing and developing its own chipsets, which means that it might not use Exynos chips from System […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
3 months ago

Wild rumor claims Samsung’s Exynos 2300 has a special core for One UI optimization

It has been widely reported that Samsung has ditched the Exynos 2300 in favor of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for the Galaxy S23. However, there has been no official word from either Samsung or Qualcomm about the Snapdragon’s exclusivity. Some reports also claim that the Galaxy S23 will use a higher-clocked version of the […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
4 months ago

Is Samsung-AMD GPU collab for Exynos chips in danger?

Last year, AMD and Samsung announced that they’ve co-developed an RDNA2-based GPU for Exynos chipsets. And the first chipset with such a GPU is the Exynos 2200, which debuted earlier this year with the Galaxy S22 series. However, the AMD-Samsung collaboration might be in danger, and we might not see AMD GPUs inside Exynos chipsets […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
5 months ago

Samsung’s quarterly profit declined in Q3 2022, first time in three years

After choosing Lee Jae-yong as its Executive Chairman, Samsung Electronics announced its earnings for Q3 2022. Earlier this month, the company revealed that its operating profit is expected to decline. Now, the company has reported its full earnings, revealing its first operating profit decline in three years. Although Samsung Electronics’ revenue was up by 4% […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
5 months ago

Lee Jae-yong becomes Executive Chairman of Samsung Electronics

Samsung has just announced that Lee Jae-yong has been appointed as Samsung Electronics’ Executive Chairman. The board approved the appointment after the recommendation by current board chairman Kim Han-jo. The post had been vacant for the past two years since the death of former Chairman Lee Kun-hee. Samsung Group’s board said that the company needs […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
5 months ago

Samsung’s latest 200MP camera sensor used in this Xiaomi phone

Over the past year, Samsung has launched not one but three 200MP camera sensors for smartphones. The ISOCELL HP1 was the company’s first 200MP sensor, and it has been used in the Motorola Edge 30 Ultra. The company’s two other sensors are smaller than the ISOCELL HP1, and the latest in the lineup is being […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
5 months ago