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Samsung Electronics has started mass production of its 9th generation of V-NAND memory. The first dies based on their latest NAND tech come in a 1 Tb capacity using a triple-level cell (TLC) architecture, with data transfer rates as high as 3.2 GT/s. The new 3D TLC NAND memory will initially be used to build high-capacity and high-performance SSDs, which will help to solidify Samsung's position in the storage market. Diving right in, Samsung is conspicuously avoiding to list the number of layers in their latest generation NAND, which is the principle driving factor in increasing capacity generation-on-generation. The company's current 8th gen V-NAND is 236 layers – similar to its major competitors – and word on the street is that 9th gen V-NAND ups...
Samsung SSD News: 1TB 840 EVO mSATA, RAPID for 840 Pro & eDrive for 840 EVO
Today has been a busy day for Samsung's SSD department with three releases/announcements. With three different topics, I've separated this article into three, so let's begin with the hardware. Samsung...
35 by Kristian Vättö on 12/9/2013Samsung S27B971D Monitor Review
At the 2013 CES Samsung made a point to demonstrate the excellent accuracy of their monitors. They had an example of the automated calibration routine they go through at...
52 by Chris Heinonen on 10/31/2013Samsung Galaxy Round, a Curved Note 3
Just recently, news broke that the Galaxy Round is being released for sale in Korea. While Samsung can claim that they are the first to create a commercially sold...
25 by Joshua Ho on 10/9/2013Some Thoughts on Smartphone Region Locking
Recently, reports of Samsung region locking the Note 3 came out via Clove UK, which posted on its blog that the Note 3 would be completely unable to use...
60 by Joshua Ho on 10/7/2013They're (Almost) All Dirty: The State of Cheating in Android Benchmarks
Thanks to AndreiF7's excellent work on discovering it, we kicked off our investigations into Samsung’s CPU/GPU optimizations around the international Galaxy S 4 in July and came away...
375 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 10/2/2013Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Review
I still remember the first time I held the original Galaxy Note. At that point in time it wasn’t really obvious just how critical larger-display smartphones were going to...
305 by Brian Klug on 10/1/2013Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Review
Ever since the arrival of the Nexus 10, it’s been hard recommending other, lower resolution 10-inch Android tablets. Although not the knock out success that the Nexus 7 became...
100 by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/1/2013Samsung's S9110 Watchphone: What Came Before the Galaxy Gear
Last night I got a reminder from my friend Vlad that my Galaxy Gear headline wasn't technically accurate - the Gear wasn't Samsung's first wearable. I responded saying that...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/5/2013Samsung Introduces Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) with 2560x1600 Display
Alongside the Galaxy Note 3, Samsung also updated its 10.1-inch Galaxy Note with a 2014 Edition of the tablet. The changes to the 10.1-inch Galaxy Note mirror those of...
31 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/4/2013Samsung's Galaxy Note 3: Snapdragon 800 in a Slimmer Galaxy Note
Samsung was among the first to discover the demand for very large smartphones and quickly addressed that market with its Galaxy Note lineup. The smartphone Notes combine a large...
60 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/4/2013The Galaxy Gear Preview: Samsung's First Wearable
As the smartphone and tablet markets shift from high growth to the early stages of maturity, forward looking companies are looking at other adjacent markets for continued growth. Wearable...
80 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/4/2013Samsung’s V-NAND: Hitting the Reset Button on NAND Scaling
SSD pricing has come down tremendously since Intel’s X25-M hit the scene in 2008. Back then we were talking about 80GB for around $600, while today Micron and Samsung...
44 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/21/2013Samsung’s 3D Vertical NAND Set to Improve NAND Densities
Ars Technica has posted information on Samsung’s new 3D Vertical NAND technology, and it promises to boost densities for SSDs and other similar devices dramatically. Samsung announced last night...
33 by Jarred Walton on 8/6/2013Update on GPU Optimizations in Galaxy S 4
Yesterday we posted our analysis of the Exynos 5 Octa's behavior in international versions of the Galaxy S 4 in certain benchmarks first discovered by Beyond3D user @Andreif7. Samsung...
38 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 7/31/2013Looking at CPU/GPU Benchmark Optimizations in Galaxy S 4
Somehow both Anand and I ended up with international versions of Samsung’s Galaxy S 4, equipped with the first generation Exynos 5 Octa (5410) SoC. Anand bought an international...
112 by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/30/2013Samsung SSD 840 EVO Review: 120GB, 250GB, 500GB, 750GB & 1TB Models Tested
I'm continually amazed by Samsung's rise to power in the SSD space. If you compare their market dominating products today to what we were reviewing from Samsung just a...
137 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/25/2013Samsung Galaxy S 4 ZeroLemon 7500 mAh Extended Battery Review
One of the chief differentiators with the Samsung Galaxy S 4 versus other current flagship Android devices is the continued support for user-replaceable batteries. Although removable batteries are becoming...
75 by Brian Klug on 7/23/2013Samsung Updates Exynos 5 Octa (5420), Switches Back to ARM GPU
In the first part of our series on ARM, we mentioned that with every major microprocess design ARM tries to choose 3 licensees to get early access to technology...
44 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 7/22/2013New Elements to Samsung SSDs: The MEX Controller, Turbo Write and NVMe
As part of the SSD Summit in Korea today, Samsung gave the world media a brief glimpse into some new technologies. The initial focus on most of these...
21 by Ian Cutress on 7/18/2013Samsung launch the 840 EVO: Up to 1TB and Faster Writes for 120GB
As part of the 2013 Samsung SSD Global Summit here in Korea, Samsung announced that latest member to their SSD lineup – the Samsung SSD 840 EVO, under the...
39 by Ian Cutress on 7/17/2013