December 10, 2012, International Electron Devices Meeting, San Francisco—Seonki Kim from Samsung presented a view of the current state of the art and the future prospective for the display industry. Changes will take place at both the macro and micro levels for all displays. Displays have evolved from analog CRTs by adding color, and these [...]

October 2012 – The Consumer Electronics Association honored their members with their annual Hall of Fame Dinner held in San Francisco. The award winners represent the diversity of the industry and the association. These inductees ranged from fundamental technology innovation to industry associations founders to those in the retail channel. This range helps the CEA [...]

November 2012, At this year’s Samsung CIO Conference, held in San Jose, the focus was on the global issues of ubiquitous connectivity through data centers and service providers in an environment that is constrained by the universal resources of power and pollution. The event open with an intro from SJ mayor Chuck Reed who was [...]

September 2012, In a briefing for VMWorld, Samsung’s Enterprise SSD group gave us an update and overview on their virtualization solution using their SSD products. As the number of users and processes increases due to the number of VMs per CPU, the queue depth for concurrent I/O requests per storage volume increases rapidly. The standard [...]

 June 14, 2012, Infocomm, Las Vegas—We talked with Samsung about their commercial display products. They released a number of new products at the show that highlighted their technical versatility. One new product is a set of 22-inch, square display tiles with direct LED backlighting. These displays host ultra-definition resolution and can be set up in [...]

March 2012 – Samsung has recently introduced their new consumer oriented SATA III (6Gbps) SSD the 830Series. This is a desktop and oriented drive that come with the mounting bracket, SATA cable, power cable, and software. The current kit includes both the Samsung SSD software and a copy of Norton Ghost to aid with drive [...]

We talked with Samsung about their various memory product lines. The constant drivers for changes are the demands for higher performance, higher capacity, and in of growing importance, lower power. The specific product lines we discussed were DDR three, SSD, and mobile memories. At the high performance and of the spectrum, DDR-3 memories are used [...]

 March 14, 2012, Common Platform Technology Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Jong Shih Yoon, senior vice president of semiconductor R&D at Samsung described their efforts in 3-D device technology. The Common Platform is driving changes in business and interpersonal relations.  The Common Platform has changed the nature of development in light of the demands for integrating higher [...]

 January 2012, Las Vegas, In addition to the massive floor display of TVs, appliances, and mobile electronics which dominated the Central Hall of the LVCC, Samsung also filled most of the Cosmopolitan Hotel conference rooms with specialized product briefings. One of the briefings was an update and the release of the Smart Media Hub. Since [...]

 We talked with Ryan Smith, senior manager for SSD product marketing at Samsung about the trends and drivers in the storage industry, when we were at IDF. The standard response was drives are getting bigger and faster. In the enterprise or data center, storage selection is a function of read-write ratios, throughput, and latency. Some [...]