Samsung is going to invest $3.9 billion in Semiconductor plant in Austin Texas

 

Back to last August, Samsung has announced that it would be looking to expand its semiconductor plant in Austin, Texas.

Recently the South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world’s No.1 memory-chip maker, said that talks with local authorities have bieng completed, giving Samsung the green light to go forward with the expansion.

The impetus behind the $3.9 billion investment is likely the plants involvement in the large scale production of mostly Apple Ax SoCs. By expanding its operations in Apple’s backyard, so to speak, Samsung will be able to provide chips to Apple at even lower cost.

This is especially interesting in light of rumors floating around that Apple is looking for a new chip supplier, given all of its recent legal troubles with the Korean giant. It looks like Samsung is trying to make it even more difficult for Apple to break ties, a process that would potentially take years to complete.

 

Source : Economic Times

Samsung announcing officially the Galaxy S III mini, packs a 4-inch Super AMOLED

As expected Samsung has just unveiled today the minianture version of it’s flagship, the Galaxy S III Mini (Samsung I8190 Galaxy S III mini) in Frankfurt, Germany.

The Samsung Galaxy S III Mini will keeps the same signature design (nature-inspired design) just like the original Galaxy S III and the Galaxy Note II. And now we have the official specs actually does not differ much on what we’ve seen before on the leak info, especially the one concerning the display.

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Here’s what the Galaxy S III Mini (Samsung I8190 Galaxy S III Mini) will have a 4.0-inch WVGA Super AMOLED display (and a PenTile matrix), runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with Samsung’s traditional TouchWiz customizations on top. Under the hood is a ST-Ericsson NovaThor chipset with two Cortex-A9 cores, clocked at 1GHz, 1GB of RAM and a Mali-400 GPU. The main camera is a 5MP sensor with LED flash and it’s capable of 720p recording video, the front-facing camera it’s a VGA.

Connectivity side the Samsung Galaxy S III mini offers quad-band 2G and tri-band 3G connectivity (WiFi a/b/g/n, WiFi HT40/GPS/GLONASS) (with 14.4Mbps HSDPA and 5.76Mbps HSUPA), Bluetooth 4.0 (LE) as well as NFC. The storage side will comes in 8GB or 16GB versions, expandable with MicroSD slot.

The Samsung Galaxy S III Mini measurement are 121.6 x 63 x 9.9 mm and it weighs 111.5g and the battery has 1500mAh capacity.

 

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Official Press Release

Samsung Introduces GALAXY S III mini, a compact yet powerful smartphone

GALAXY S III’s nature-inspired design and intuitive ease-of-use in one stylish, compact smartphone

SEOUL, Korea – October 12, 2012 –

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, today unveiled the GALAXY S III mini,
a compact version of the flagship smartphone GALAXY S III.
The GALAXY S III mini brings the high performance, intuitive ease-of-use and nature-inspired design of the GALAXY S III to an elegant,
compact smartphone with a 4.0-inch screen. It can be an optimal choice for consumers who are looking for more practical smartphones.

“The GALAXY S III introduced a new concept of smartphone that has proven hugely popular around the world.
We’re now delighted to bring its revolutionary design, intuitive usability and intelligence to the GALAXY S III mini in a more compact form,” said JK Shin, President and Head of IT & Mobile Communications Division at Samsung Electronics. “We continue to make every effort to provide extraordinary mobile experiences to meet a wide variety of user needs.”

The GALAXY S III mini is powered by Android™ 4.1 (Jelly Bean), the latest version of the world’s most popular smartphone operating system.
Jelly Bean has fast, fluid and smooth graphics along with a new Google Search™ experience featuring Google Now™, which brings you just the right information, before you even ask.

Stylish and compact, the GALAXY S III mini shares the GALAXY S III’s breakthrough design and simple elegance.
Its ultra-minimal curved frame delivers a rich natural feel, which is also reflected on its nature-inspired home screen, wallpapers and ringtones.
Its beautiful 4.0-inch Super AMOLED display offers a generous viewing experience that lets you view multimedia and Web content in brilliant color and clarity.
Its compact size gives users a comfortable grip and allows a convenient one-hand operation.

The GALAXY S III mini is packed with intelligent technology designed to make interacting with the phone incredibly natural and intuitive.
S Voice, Samsung’s advanced natural language recognition software, lets you use your voice to unlock the phone with
simple customized commands, or to play your favorite songs, turn the volume up or down, organize your schedule, or automatically launch the camera and start taking photos.

The GALAXY S III mini also understands your gestures to make using your phone easier and more natural: With Smart Stay,
the phone’s camera tracks your eyes and keeps the screen lit as long as you are looking at it. When reading a text message from a friend,
Direct Call enables you to automatically dial a call simply by lifting the phone to your ear; and Smart Alert conveniently alerts you to missed calls or messages as soon as you pick up your phone.

Content sharing is easy and fast on the GALAXY S III mini: Its S Beam feature lets you share a 10MB music file in just two seconds
by simply tapping on another S Beam-enabled device including GALAXY S III or GALAXY Note II, even without a Wi-Fi or cellular signal.
The ‘Buddy photo share’ function also allows photos to be easily and simultaneously shared with all your friends pictured in an image directly from the camera or the photo gallery.

Via : Samsung

Samsung Galaxy S III Mini specs and photo leak, packs Dual-core CPU and JB

Back to only few hours ago we’ve got confirmation of the upcoming Smasung Galaxy S III Minithat will gathers the name (the Samsung I8190 Galaxy S III mini) that was leaked in full before tomorrow’s official announcement.

The Samsung Galaxy S III Mini will features a Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with Samsung’s traditional TouchWiz customizations on top. The rear Camera has a 5MP with LED flash and there will be a front-facing VGA camera, though there’s no info about the video recording (is it going to be a 1080p, or might it be 720p). The Galaxy S III Mini is powered by a ST-Ericsson U8420 chipset with a dual-core CPU clocked at 1GHz and 1GB RAM, And will packs 4-inch WVGA Display and it’s a Super AMOLED.

On the connectivity side we have quad-band 2G and tri-band 3G with 14.4Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 HSUPA, dual-band Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, DLNA, Bluetooth 4.0, optional NFC and a microUSB port. The built-in storage is set at 16GB, expandable with a microSD card.

The Galaxy S III mini will measure 121.6 x 63 x 9.9 mm and will have a plastic exterior that looks like the Galaxy S Duos (a small S III/Note II lookalike). Still no info about the weight. The battery inside it will have 1500mAh capacity.

The pricing of the Samsung Galaxy S III mini set at €400 ($515), We’ll wait for the official pricing info during tomorrow’s official unveiling.

These specs aren’t official so they might be inaccurate, so take this news with a pinch of sault, till we gives you all about the 4-inch Samsung Galaxy S III mini device, when the device will be unvieled.

Via : MobileGeeks (German)

Samsung confirms a 4-inch Galaxy S III mini, to be unveiled tomorrow on October 11th

 

Previously has been teased on a German brochure, the upcoming Galaxy S III Mini has now been confirmed, and as it mentioned before the device will be unveiled on October 11’th , and it seems that the new Galaxy S III Mini will gathers a 4-inch display.

JK Shin, head of Samsung Mobile Communications, confirmed today that his company will be releasing a four-inch version of the Galaxy S III on October 11th in Germany. Shin announced the news during a meeting with Korean press on Wednesday.

Shin didn’t reveal many details about the device, though he said it was spurred by increasing demand for 4-inch devices in Europe. He also noted that it won’t be an entry-level handset, telling reporters it will have “full form factor.” That would give the company a high-end smartphone with an iPhone 5-esque form factor for folks who don’t want to wedge the original 4.8-inch model into their pockets.

JK Shin says :

“We’ll be launching a 4-inch Galaxy S III on the 11th in Germany,” Shin said. “There’s a lot of demand for a 4-inch screen device in Europe. Some call it an entry-level device, but we call it ‘mini.”

 

Concerning pricing and stateside availability wasn’t been mentioned yet, but JK Shin says that the product launch in Korea is “under consideration.

As always “As we used to do”, we’ll lets know a lot more about it on October 11th, so stay tuned.

 

Via : INews24 [Korean]

Samsung Electronics reveals earnings guidance for Q3 2012, expects more

Samsung has announced its earning guidance for Q3 2012 and expects yet another record breaking quarter (fourth in a row). According to the preliminary report, the company is expecting an achieve an operating profit of $7.28 billion.

In fact, this is more than double the operating profit Samsung got in Q3 2011 and considerably more than the last quarter’s $5.86 billion. Consolidated sales are estimated to be around $46 billion.

In the full Q3 2012 financial report, which is expected to be released before October 26, everything will be broken down by departments, so that we can see how big of a role the mobile department has played. One thing is certain, Samsung is on a roll and it doesn’t plan on stopping soon.

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Official Press Release

Samsung Electronics Announces Earnings Guidance for Third Quarter 2012
Consolidated revenues estimated at 52 trillion Korean won
Operating profit at 8.1 trillion won

SEOUL, Korea – October 5, 2012 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced its earnings guidance for the third quarter, 2012.

Consolidated Sales : Approximately 52 trillion Korean won
(Range: 51 – 53 trillion Korean won)

Consolidated Operating Profit : Approximately 8.1 trillion Won
(Range: 7.9 – 8.3 trillion Korean won)

The above figures are consolidated earnings estimates based on K-IFRS

※ ’12 2Q and ’11 3Q consolidated figures based on K-IFRS are as follows

(in trillion won)
’12 .2Q
‘11.3Q
Sales
47.60
41.27
Operating profit
6.72
4.25

Disclosure regulations in South Korea do not allow earnings guidance to be provided as a range, therefore the official disclosure was made based on the median value as stated above.

The guidance is provided ahead of the full announcement of quarterly earnings results for the convenience of investors and media, before our external audit on the financial results of our headquarters, subsidiaries and affiliates is completed. Therefore, the above estimate may differ from the actual results.

The full earnings for the third quarter will be disclosed following the Board of Directors’ approval of the financial statements and quarterly reports.

About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2011 consolidated sales of US$143.1 billion. Employing approximately 206,000 people in 197 offices across 72 countries, the company operates two separate organizations to coordinate its nine independent business units: Digital Media & Communications, comprising Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, and Digital Imaging; and Device Solutions, consisting of Memory, System LSI and LED. Recognized for its industry-leading performance across a range of economic, environmental and social criteria, Samsung Electronics was named the world’s most sustainable technology company in the 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability Index. For more information, please visit http://www.samsung.com.

 

Via : Korea IT Times