<span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> to conduct 5G field trial in Delhi next year
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Samsung to conduct 5G field trial in Delhi next year

Korean telecom gear maker Samsung will conduct 5G field trials in New Delhi in the first quarter of the next year, and is working closely with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). It will be conducting the trial using the millimeter wave spectrum even as other vendors like Huawei plan to conduct trials in the mid-band."We expect to do the trial in the first quarter… it will be in New Delhi...We will also work with many partners on use cases...We don’t expect this trial to be something that will be done in two days... We will set it up and over a period of time different use cases," Srini Sundarajan, Samsung India Senior Vice President and Head (Network Business) said, adding that India will have commercial 5G by 2020.In India, Samsung is the sole 4G equipment provider for Jio’s pan-India network and is also a technology provider for the telco’s narrowband IoT network which went live in Mumbai earlier this year.The executive didn't directly reveal the name of its telco for the field trial in India. However, sources said that Jio would be Samsung's telco partner for these field trials.Asked if Samsung would engage with other telcos for 5G deployment in India, Sundarajan said it is still early to talk about who their partners will be, but Reliance Jio will "always remain the prime partner". Reliance Jio has previously told ET that it could launch 5G services within 6 months of spectrum auctions in India. The telecom department had previously invited vendors like Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei and Cisco to conduct 5G field trials in the country. The department is expected to provide 100MHz of spectrum for these field trials in the country, along with the backhaul support. According to Sundarajan, 5G technology -- apart from consumers -- can have various use cases across sectors like healthcare, agriculture, smart cities and surveillance. "...the amount of spectrum operators have will dictate the kind of use cases they can offer...we are already working with telecom operators in the US and Korea for 5G deployment commercially and that the the new-age technology holds huge potential for India for from network and associated devices perspective," he said.The executive said that Samsung will also work with academia, the 5G forum, and other stakeholders to conduct these trials to identify new use cases in India. “We are taking the lead for these trials,” he said.He said that India is a big and one of the fastest growing markets for Samsung's networks business.
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<span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> debuts semiconductor innovations at <span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> Tech Day
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Samsung debuts semiconductor innovations at Samsung Tech Day

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced several groundbreaking additions to its comprehensive semiconductor ecosystem that encompass next-generation technologies in foundry as well as NAND flash, SSD (solid state drive) and DRAM. Together, these developments mark a giant step forward for Samsung’s semiconductor business.Unveiled at its annual Samsung Tech Day include:7nm EUV process node from Samsung’s Foundry Business, providing significant strides forward in power, performance and area.SmartSSD, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) SSD, that will offer accelerated data processing and the ability to bypass server CPU limits.QLC-SSD for enterprise and datacenters that offer 33-percent more storage per cell than TLC-SSD, consolidating of storage footprints and improving total cost of ownership (TCO).256-gigabyte (GB) 3DS (3-dimensional stacking) RDIMM (registered dual in-line memory module), based on 10nm-class 16-gigabit (Gb) DDR4 DRAM that will double current maximum capacity to deliver higher performance and lower power consumption.“Samsung’s technology leadership and product breadth are unparalleled,” said JS Choi, President, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. “Bringing 7nm EUV into production is an incredible achievement. Also, the announcements of SmartSSD and 256GB 3DS RDIMM represent performance and capacity breakthroughs that will continue to push compute boundaries. Together, these additions to Samsung’s comprehensive technology ecosystem will power the next generation of datacenters, high-performance computing (HPC), enterprise, artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging applications.”Advanced Foundry TechnologyInitial wafer production of Samsung’s 7nm LPP (Low Power Plus) EUV process node represents a major milestone in semiconductor fabrication. The 7LPP EUV process technology provides great advances, including a respective maximum of 40-percent area reduction, 50-percent dynamic power reduction and 20-percent performance increase over 10nm processes. The 7LPP process represents a clear demonstration of the foundry business’ technology roadmap evolution, providing Samsung’s customers a direct path forward to 3nm.Powering Server-less ComputingSamsung enables the most advanced providers of server-less computing through products including the new SmartSSD, quad-level cell (QLC)-SSD, 256GB 3DS RDIMM as well as High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) 2 Aquabolt. By accelerating data processing, bypassing server CPU limits and reducing power demands, these products will enable datacenter operators to continue to scale at faster speeds while containing costs.Samsung’s industry-leading flash memory products for future datacenters will also include Key Value (KV)-SSD and Z-SSD. KV-SSD eliminates block storage inefficiency, reducing latency and allowing datacenter performance to scale evenly when CPU architectures max out. The company’s next-generation Z-SSD will be the fastest flash memory ever introduced, with dual port high availability, ultra-low latency and a U.2 form factor, designed to meet the emerging needs of enterprise clients. Z-SSD will also feature a PCIe Gen 4 interface with a blazing-fast 12-gigabytes-per-second (GB/s) sequential read, which is 20 times faster than today’s SATA SSD drives.Accelerating Application LearningA range of revolutionary Samsung solutions will enable the development of upcoming machine learning and AI technologies. The Tech Day AI display highlighted astounding data transfer speeds of 16Gb GDDR6 (64GB/s), ultra-low latency of Z-SSD and industry-leading performance of Aquabolt, which is the highest of any DRAM-based memory solution currently in the market. Together, these solutions help Samsung’s enterprise and datacenter clients open new doors to application learning and create the next wave of AI advancements.Streamlining Data FlowSamsung’s new solutions will enable not just faster speeds and higher performance but also improved efficiency for its enterprise clients. Enterprise products on display at Tech Day included D1Y 8Gb DDR4 Server DRAM, which incorporates the most advanced DRAM process, resulting in lower power usage. Samsung’s 256GB 3DS RDIMM also helps to improve enterprise performance and enables memory-intensive servers capable up to 16-terabytes (TB).Additionally, Samsung’s dual-port x4 PCIe Gen 4 32TB SSD offers 10GB/s performance. Samsung’s 1Tb QLC-SSD presents a cutting-edge storage option for enterprise clients with competitive efficiency when compared to hard disk drives (HDD), while KV-SSD allows server performance to scale even as CPU architectures max out, also providing a competitive TCO, write amplification factor (WAF) improvement and scalability.Breaking Performance BarriersWith their leading-edge specs, Samsung’s QLC-SSD, Z-SSD and 8GB Aquabolt help high-performance computing clients blast through performance barriers and reach new heights. The 8GB Aquabolt provides the fastest data transmission speed and highest performance of any DRAM-based memory solution on the market today at 307GB/s per HBM cube. QLC-SSD and Z-SSD, both powerful on their own, are also offered in a tiered storage solution that results in a 53-percent increase in overall system performance.Enabling Future InnovationEmerging tech requires the most innovative and flexible components. Samsung’s SmartSSD will increase speed and efficiency, and lower operating costs by pushing intelligence to where data lives. Movement of data for processing has traditionally caused increased latency and energy consumption while reducing efficiency. Samsung’s new SmartSSDs will overcome these issues by incorporating an FPGA accelerator into the SSD unit. This allows for faster data processing through bypassing server CPU limits. As a result, SmartSSDs will have higher processing performance, improved time-to-insight, more virtual machines (VM), scalable performance, better de-duplication and compression, lower power usage and fewer CPUs per system.Unparalleled Product EcosystemSamsung’s comprehensive product portfolio with state-of-the-art solutions set new standards for data processing speed, capacity, bandwidth and energy conservation. By leveraging such solutions, data centers, enterprise companies, hyper-scalers and emerging tech platforms are able to configure product solutions based on their requirements and develop exciting new tech offerings such as 5G, AI, enterprise and hyperscale data centers, automotive, networking and beyond.Samsung will continue to push boundaries in tomorrow’s semiconductor technologies through innovations such as its sixth-generation V-NAND built on a single structure, or with ‘1-stack technology,’ and sub-10nm DRAM with EUV for super-high density and performance.Experts across the industry, including Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, were invited at Samsung Tech Day to address the advancements and challenges in today’s semiconductor market, and offer insights for the future of semiconductors. More than 400 customers, partners and industry influencers attended the event.
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<span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> Ramps 7nm EUV Chips
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Samsung Ramps 7nm EUV Chips

The race is on to get the first chip made with extreme ultraviolet lithography out the foundry door.Samsung said it has taped out and is ramping multiple 7nm chips using EUV following a similar announcement earlier this month from its larger foundry rival TSMC. Samsung also gave its supporting IP and EDA infrastructure a boost and detailed its packaging capabilities in an effort to catch up with TSMCs ecosystem.The South Korean giant also announced it is sampling 256-GByte RDIMMs based on its 16-Gbit DRAM chips and plans for solid-state drives with embedded Xilinx FPGAs. But the 7nm news was the highlight of the event, a milestone fueled in part by its internal development of an EUV mask inspection system.The 7LPP process will deliver up to a 40% shrink and up to 20% higher speeds or 50% lower power consumption compared to its 10nm node. Separately, Samsung said it now has 50 foundry partners including Ansys, Arm, Cadence (which has digital and analog flows for 7nm), Mentor, Synopsys and VeriSilicon, which said it taped out a chip in the 7nm process.The process is said to have attracted customers who include Web giants, networking companies and mobile vendors such as Qualcomm. However, Samsung expects no customer announcements until early next year.EUV systems supported 250W light sources on a sustained basis since early this year at Samsung’s S3 fab in Hwaseong, South Korea, said Bob Stear, director of foundry marketing at Samsung. The power level drove throughput up to the needed 1,500 wafers/day for production. Since then, EUV systems have hit a peak 280W, and Samsung targets 300W, he said.EUV eliminates a fifth of masks required with traditional argon-flouride systems, raising yields. However, the node still requires some multi-patterning in base layers at the front-end-of-line, said Stear.Samsung developed its own system to compare and fix expected and actual mask patterns to speed EUV into production. G. Dan Hutcheson of VLSI Research described it as a mask review system because it’s unclear if it is as automated as typical third-party inspection systems.The 7nm node will meet Grade 1 AEC-Q100 automotive standards by the end of the year. In packaging, Samsung is developing an RDL interposer that will enable up to 8 HBM stacks on a single device. It is also working on a process to embed passives in a substrate to save space for data center chips.Both Samsung and TSMC will apply EUV probably only to two chip layers at 7nm, so far not using protective pellicles that are still in development, said Handel Jones, president of International Business Strategies. They will extend EUV to perhaps six layers at 5nm nodes, but that may not come until 2021 when pellicles will have sufficient durability and light-transmission capabilities, he said.“Samsung is about six months ahead with an EUV process because they have been using the systems with DRAM and logic, but TSMC is way ahead in enablement with IP and tools and is working with more customers such as AMD, Apple, HiSilicon and Nvidia, among others,” said Jones.Another analyst said Cisco, a customer of the former IBM foundry business, is now working with TSMC for 7nm products. Qualcomm is expected to split its 7nm work between TSMC and Samsung.Nevertheless, Jones forecasts the South Korean giant’s revenues, on track to hit $90 billion this year, could leap to more than $150 billion by 2027. The prediction is based more on growth in its memory business, where he estimates Samsung will rise to command 50% of DRAM and 45% of NAND sales.Samsung is on track to start production of 5 and 4nm nodes before June, providing evolutionary improvements with the same device sets. PDKs for the nodes could be released before the end of the year, and a second shell for EUV production is being built next to the S3 fab, said Stear.The three nodes will move the contact closer to and eventually over the gate to increase density and reduce metal pitches. It’s an approach Intel previously discussed for its 10nm node that is still not in volume production.“We’re doing contact-over-gate in steps. It’s a hard problem to solve, as some are finding out,” said Stear.Samsung announced in May its plans to move to gate-all-around transistors also described as nanosheets for a 3nm node. It aims to drop nominal voltage to a new low to continue power savings. First cut of a version 0.1 PDK for a 3nm node could be available by June.Samsung has a laundry list of packaging options already available in house.In its core memory business, Samsung said it is sampling 256GByte RDIMMs made with its 16Gbit chips. The cards running at DDR4 speeds up to 3200 MHz and supporting 50ns reads and writes should be in production before the end of the year.The chips are made in a 1y-nm process first described a year ago. It was not clear whether EUV is being applied to the 1y process. However, follow-on 1z and 1a nodes will increasingly use EUV, Samsung’s head of DRAM development, Seong Jin Jang, suggested in a talk here.Samsung showed eight of the DIMMs running on an AMD Epyc server. They hit 3.2 million operations/second at 170W compared to its existing 128GB cards delivering 3.8 million ops/s at 225W.Ultimately, Samsung aims to boost DIMMs to 768 GBytes. It also aims to raise HBM data rates to 512 GB/second from 307 GB/s today. GDDR6 graphics memories will hit 22 Gbits/s from 18 Gbits/s today, and LPDDR memories will fall from 24 mW/GB to 12 mW/GB, he added without providing time frames.Separately, Samsung announced plans for smart solid-state-drives (SSDs) using embedded Xilinx Zynq FPGAs to bolster performance 2.8-3.3x. The devices target a wide range of database, AI, video and storage applications.The SSDs will provide an easier way to scale performance than matching banks of standard FPGAs to separate accelerators, the company said. The products, still in a prototype phase, will use a range of densities and medium-grade FPGAs.The smart SSD is so far only a prototype without specs or a delivery date 
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<span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> Reportedly Plans to Cut Memory Production
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Samsung Reportedly Plans to Cut Memory Production

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics is cutting back plans for memory production increases in an effort to keep supplies tight in the face of slowing demand, according to a report by the Bloomberg news service.The report, which cites unnamed sources said to be briefed on the matter, said that Samsung now expects DRAM bit growth of less than 20% this year and NAND flash bit growth of about 30%. Samsung had said earlier this year that it expected DRAM bit growth of about 20% and NAND bit growth of about 40% this year.Samsung declined to comment in the Bloomberg report and also declined an EE Times request for comment through a spokesperson.After tremendous growth over the past 18 months amid shortages, the memory chip market is softening, with industry analysts warning of a looming downturn amid oversupply.IC categories forecasted to grow faster than the overall semiconductor market in 2018. (Source: IC Insights)Market research firm IC Insights said earlier this week that the DRAM market is expected to grow about 53% this year after increasing by 76% in 2017. After rising average selling prices (ASPs) for DRAM continued to boost the market through the first half of the year and into August, the firm said it believes that the DRAM ASP — and subsequent market growth — is at or near its peak, “as a big rise in DRAM capital expenditures for planned capacity upgrades and expansions is likely putting the brakes on steep market growth beginning in 2019.”IC Insights also projects that NAND sales will increase by 29% this year after growing by 46% in 2017. But the NAND market is already headed back to earth with ASPs in decline. DRAMexchange, a research firm that tracks memory chip pricing, projects that NAND ASPs will decline by nearly 10% in the third quarter compared to the second quarter.[Partnered Content: Learn how Silicon Labs’ Blue Gecko Bluetooth Low Energy SoC Kit enables developers to quickly establish a Bluetooth connection]Research firm Nomura said earlier this week that Samsung has once again decided to postpone some DRAM capacity investment at the firm’s P2 fab in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Samsung is also likely to delay some planned NAND capacity investment in South Korea and China, according to Normura. The firm’s analysts believe that the postponement is designed to reign in supply and shore up prices.
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Air Products to expand supply for <span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> Electronics’ semiconductor fab in Giheung, South Korea
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Air Products to expand supply for Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor fab in Giheung, South Korea

Air Products (NYSE : APD ) today announced it has been awarded by Samsung Electronics additional gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen supply to its semiconductor fab in Giheung, South Korea.Air Products, who has been supplying industrial gases to Samsung Electronics’ Giheung site since 1998, will invest in building a new air separation unit, multiple hydrogen plants, and pipelines, which are scheduled to be operational in 2020 to supply the customer’s increased demand.“We are proud to expand our longstanding relationship with Samsung Electronics and have their continued confidence in our ability to support their technological development and growth plans,” said Kyo-Yung Kim, president of Air Products Korea. “Our latest investment once again reinforces Air Products’ commitment to serving our strategic customer, as well as the broader semiconductor and electronics industries, with our safety, reliability, efficiency and excellent service.”Air Products supplies many of Samsung’s operations worldwide, including its semiconductor cluster in the north region of South Korea spanning Giheung, Hwaseong and Pyeongtaek. In Pyeongtaek, the company has been undertaking a multi-phase expansion project to support Samsung Electronics’ multibillion dollar fab.A leading integrated gases supplier, Air Products has been serving the global electronics industry for more than 40 years, supplying industrial gases safely and reliably to most of the world’s largest technology companies. Air Products is working with these industry leaders to develop the next generation of semiconductors and displays for tablets, computers and mobile devices.
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<span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> Display’s AMOLED Fab Utilization to Recover to Above 80% in Q3 2018
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Samsung Display’s AMOLED Fab Utilization to Recover to Above 80% in Q3 2018

According to IHS, Samsung Display’s average AMOLED fab utilization rate started to plunge from the end of 2017. It remained in the 50% range until May, due to low seasonality and weaker-than-expected demand from major customers.In H1 2018, glass input at the A3 fab fell significantly short of the capacity that nearly doubled in H2 2017. Contrary to expectations that the fab would enjoy a surge in flexible AMOLED panel demand following the launch of new smartphones from Samsung Display’s key customers, especially from Apple, it grappled with lower-than-expected demand. In H1 2018, utilization remained low in both A1 and A2 fabs due to growing competition from LTPS LCD panels in the smartphone display market and disappointing demand from Chinese customers.However, the average monthly utilization rate at Samsung Display’s AMOLED fabs is expected to increase significantly to above 80% in Q3 2018. The A3 fab, which accounts for the lion’s share of Samsung Display’s AMOLED panel production, will see its utilization jump due to the upcoming launches of Samsung Electronics’ and Apple’s new smartphones and a recovery in seasonal demand. With increasing demand from Chinese customers, utilization at A1 and A2 also started to soar from June.In Q3 2018, total glass input area at Samsung Display’s AMOLED panel fabs will top the previous record high. It reached nearly 600,000 m² in Q4 2017 but plummeted to 333,000 m² in February 2018. In Q3 2018, it is forecast to nearly double from the February low.In H1 2019, demand for Samsung Display’s AMOLED panels is expected to decline from that in the end of 2018, driven by the typical slowdown in panel demand for new smartphones and the year-end shopping season. However, utilization rates will not likely fall to the H1 2018 level due to the growing adoption of AMOLED by its customers, the launch of foldable panels, and increasing demand for curved products.However, it is uncertain whether the jump in overall utilization rates will bring forward the mass production start date of the A4 fab, which has been delayed due to low utilization at other existing fabs; rather, it depends more on whether Samsung Display will succeed in adding more customers and expanding the AMOLED business into new applications, the key to the sustainable growth of its AMOLED business.
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<span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> hopes its new $1,000 Galaxy Note 9 will grab iPhone users and reverse disappointing sales
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Samsung hopes its new $1,000 Galaxy Note 9 will grab iPhone users and reverse disappointing sales

The Galaxy Note 9 features one of the biggest screens and internal storage sizes on the market, along with one of the highest price tags to match its high-end specs.The South Korean electronics giant is looking to target high-end users, in addition to luring consumers away from Apple's iPhone X.There will be two versions of the device — one with 128GB internal storage and one with 512GB storage, or twice the iPhone X's storage. The smaller storage option starts at $999.99 while the larger one has a $1,249.99 price tag, which puts it above the most expensive version of the iPhone X.The Note 9 comes with a 6.4-inch screen, one of the biggest on the market, and Samsung's S Pen, a stylus for doodling or taking notes.Samsung's launch comes at a time when the company's mobile division has been struggling. Operating profit in its mobile unit in the second quarter fell, and it's facing more competition, particularly from Chinese Android rival Huawei, which has recently become the world's second-largest smartphone maker by market share, moving ahead of Apple.The Note series of devices has never been a huge seller by volume but is an important category for Samsung because of the higher margin. Analysis firm Counterpoint Research estimates that there are over 100 million users with one of the company's flagship devices such as the Galaxy S9 or S8. Those are the users Samsung would want to persuade to upgrade to the new Note 9.CNBC | Magdalena Petrova Samsung Galaxy Note 9"But it could also attract some competing Android users or dissatisfied iOS users [who are unhappy] with battery life, limited storage, smaller screen size or less exciting software experiences," Neil Shah, a research director at Counterpoint Research, told CNBC by email.'Fortnite' on AndroidSamsung will be hoping its key features, like the S Pen, will make its device to stand out against the competition.Other key features include:Samsung's claim of all-day battery life.S Pen stylus with Bluetooth so you can use the button on it to take selfies, change music tracks and use certain apps.A dual camera that can automatically detect the scene and subject of the picture and adjust features like brightness or contrast.Wireless charging.The Note 9 will be available for preorder at 12:01 a.m. ET Friday.Perhaps Samsung's biggest marketing ploy is to draw users in with its announcement about hit game "Fortnite," which has attracted over 125 million players and over $1 billion in revenue. Epic Games, the developer behind "Fornite," announced Thursday that Samsung Galaxy users will get advanced access to the beta version of the game for Google's Android operating system. In addition to the Note 9, some of Samsung's older flagship phones and tablets will also get access to the game.Samsung said that those who preorder the Note 9 by Aug. 23 can get special in-game currency for a discounted price. The Android release of the game has been highly anticipated and could draw even bigger numbers to "Fortnite," a trend Samsung will be hoping to capture to help sell the Note 9.AI, 5G focusSmartphone shipments fell 1.8 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, according to research firm IDC. Amid the slowing market, Samsung has begun to invest in new areas of growth. While semiconductors have been a huge profit driver for Samsung, the technology giant is now looking at artificial intelligence and 5G, the next generation of mobile internet.Samsung said Wednesday it is planning to invest about 25 trillion Korean won ($22 billion) over the next three years into these new growth drivers. Samsung's share price has fallen over 8 percent this year.
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<span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> to invest $22 billion into new growth areas like A.I. and 5G
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Samsung to invest $22 billion into new growth areas like A.I. and 5G

SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSouth Korea's largest conglomerate Samsung Group is planning to invest about 25 trillion Korean won ($22 billion) over the next three years into new growth areas, led primarily by Samsung Electronics.Those investments would be made in four key areas: artificial intelligence (AI), fifth-generation mobile network technology, electronic components for future cars and bio-pharmaceuticals, the company said on Wednesday.To expand its AI capability, Samsung will be increasing the number of researchers to 1,000 across its global AI centers in the U.K., Canada, Russia, U.S. and South Korea.Samsung Electronics is currently the world's largest smartphone-maker but also boasts a very strong semiconductor business that supplies chips to the companies such as Apple.Overall, the conglomerate said it planned to invest a total of 180 trillion won ($161 billion) over the next three years, which will include capital expenditures as well as research and development in its semiconductors and displays businesses. Most of that investment — about 130 trillion won of the total — will be spent in South Korea, the company said without giving further breakdowns.Samsung also said it expects to create about 40,000 new jobs over the next three years.Last week, Samsung Electronics posted its slowest quarterly profit growth in more than a year following a slowdown in the global smartphone market. Still, the company said its chip business continued to do well.Samsung Electronics shares were marginally down in afternoon trade against a flat Kospi index.
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Apple, <span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> end 7-yr-old iPhone patent battle with undisclosed truce
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Apple, Samsung end 7-yr-old iPhone patent battle with undisclosed truce

Apple and Samsung have ended a years-long patent battle over copied iPhone design with an undisclosed settlement, according to a US court filing on Wednesday.The world's two biggest smartphone makers reached a truce in their seven-year-old court battle a month after a federal court jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple some $539 million for copying patented iPhone features.That award was seen as a victory for Apple, which had argued in court that design was essential to the iPhone.Financial terms of the settlement were not revealed and neither company elaborated on the brief court order which dismissed the litigation dating back to 2011."Whereas the court has been advised by the parties that the above-entitled action has been settled, all remaining claims and counterclaims, in this case, are hereby dismissed with prejudice," US District Court Judge Lucy Koh wrote.When contacted by AFP for comment, Apple referred to a statement released last month after the jury announced the damages award."This case has always been about more than money," the statement read."It is important that we continue to protect the hard work and innovation of so many people at Apple.South Korea-based Samsung declined to comment.Apple's lawsuit claimed Samsung, now the world's biggest handset maker, copied the design and other features of the iPhone as the smartphone market was exploding.The case was keenly watched as a precedent for whether design is so important that it could actually be considered the "article of design" even in a product as complex as a smartphone.The case had been sent back to the district court following a Supreme Court decision to revisit an earlier $400 million damage award.The jury had been asked to determine whether design features at issue in the case are worth all profit made from Samsung smartphones that copied them -- or whether those features are worth just a fraction because they are components.The three design patents in the case apply to the shape of the iPhone's black screen with rounded edges and a bezel, and the rows of colourful icons displayed.Two utility patents also involved apply to "bounce-back" and "tap-to-zoom" functions.An original trial finding that Samsung violated Apple patents preceded a lengthy appellate dueling over whether design features such as rounded edges are worth all the money made from a phone.The retrial regarding damages was one element of a $548 million penalty -- knocked down from an original $1 billion jury award -- Samsung was ordered to pay for copying iPhone patents.
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<span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> challenges $539mn verdict in Apple patent case
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Samsung challenges $539mn verdict in Apple patent case

Samsung has filed a motion with the US District Court in San Jose, California, to appeal a verdict that asked the South Korean giant to pay Apple $539 million for copying patented iPhone designs - a legal battle that dates back to 2011.Samsung thinks the verdict is wrong and wants a refund of some damages already paid, CNET reported on Monday. It asked a court last week to either dismiss the judgment or retry the case in which the damages were decided, the report said. Samsung was given the $539 million penalty last month as it was found infringing on five patents with Android phones it sold in 2010 and 2011. The legal dispute between the two tech giants dates to 2011 when Apple sued Samsung. This led the South Korean tech giant to countersue the Cupertino, California-headquartered Apple in the same year, according to a report in The Korea Herald in May.Samsung lost the case in 2012. It was ordered to pay the US tech giant more than $1 billion for infringing on three of Apple's design patents related to mobile devices -- the quick links to phone numbers, the slide-to-unlock feature and the auto-correct function.Under the US patent law, infringement of a design patent can result in a plaintiff receiving total profits made through the product. Samsung's lawyers appealed the case, bringing down the compensation of $1 billion to $400 million in 2015 at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In an attempt to limit the compensation to profits attributable to a specific component patent in question, Samsung then appealed the lower court's ruling to the Supreme Court.The South Korean tech behemoth argued that component design could be just a small part of a smartphone whose technologies involve more than 200,000 patents.In late 2016, the US Supreme Court agreed with Samsung and ordered the two tech giants to negotiate a date for a retrial to settle the award money for Apple, the The Korea Herald report said. The new appeal against the $539 million verdict suggests that the seven-year-old legal battle between the two tech giants is far from over.
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