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Samsung to Leave German Notebooks

by Super User

Samsung is to withdraw from the German notebook market. According to local media, the decision is only related to the German market; Samsung will stop selling notebooks (and Chromebooks) to focus on more profitable …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| PCs| Samsung| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Samsung Warns of 60% Fall in Profit

by Super User

Samsung says that it expects third quarter operating profit to be approximately KRW4.1 trillion ($3.8 billion), 60% lower than Q3 of last year and the fourth consecutive quarter of declines. Revenue for the period …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Samsung Goes After Mid-Range Market

by Super User

Late last month a new line of entry- to mid-range Galaxy smartphones appeared online, called the Galaxy A series. We wrote about them, but Samsung put out an official release just before we went …

Tags:AMOLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

Samsung Renames LFD Day

by Super User

Samsung’s Smart Signage & Networking Solutions Day (formerly LFD Day) will take place in Frankfurt this year, on 16th October. Visitors can view Samsung’s new displays, attend workshops and lectures and talk with Samsung …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Samsung| Smart Digital Signage| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

Opera Compression Enables Full Smartwatch Browser

by Super User

If, for some reason, you wanted a full web browser on your wrist, then worry not: Opera and Samsung have you covered. Owners of Samsung’s Tizen-powered Gear S smartwatch will be able to download …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartwatches| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Apple and Samsung See Smartphone Success

by Super User

Apple has revealed that 10 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus units were sold during the smartphone’s launch weekend. Samsung also enjoyed a minor celebration recently, having sold the 1 millionth Galaxy S5 smartphone …

Tags:Apple| Back Panel| iPhone| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

Samsung Keeps 14nm Details Close to Chest

by Super User

A 14nm FinFET device was shown by Samsung at ARM TechCon earlier this month. While the company was not sharing any information about the chip, a mobile application processor was shown decoding HD video …

Tags:Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Processors| Samsung| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Liquavista Technology – what’s the catch?

by Bob Raikes

The story that caught my attention particularly this week is the report that Samsung is trying to sell Liquavista, the Philips spin-off that it bought in January 2011 (the story has been going around …

Tags:LCD| Liquavista| MyBlog| Samsung

Samsung’s Sharp Move

by Bob Raikes

The big story of last week was, without doubt, the planned Samsung investment in Sharp. The symbolism is more important than the substance. The deal indicates that Samsung wants to have an on-going relationship …

Tags:LCD| Samsung| sharp

Chaebols in the Matrix

by Raverstead

Looking back on the year, the big trend has been the increasing dominance of the 2 x 2 matrix of Apple and Samsung, phones and tablets. If you don’t fit one of the four …

Tags:Apple| Microsoft| phones| Samsung| tablets

Is Electronics a Hits Business?

by Bob Raikes

The Samsung profit forecast that we mentioned in last week’s Display Monitor emphasises that not all is gloom and doom in the electronic business (although it mostly is at the moment!). It did get …

Tags:electronics| it| Samsung| technology

OLEDs and Secrecy

by Bob Raikes

Some years ago, a group of academics studied the LCD industry and found that much of the rapid growth of the LCD business was a result of the cooperation between different LCD-making companies. Although …

Tags:LCD| OLED| Samsung