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TSMC Reportedly to Begin Trial Production of Apple’s A6X Chip This Quarter

A new report from AFP claims that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will being trial production of Apple’s A6X chips sometime this quarter. The chip is currently used in the fourth generation iPad. By doing so, this will reduce Samsung’s role in Apple’s supply chain significantly.

The Taiwanese company has been contracted to manufacture the A6X chip, which drives Apple’s iPad4 tablet, with trial production set for the first quarter of this year, Taiwan’s Commercial Times reported.

The move is the latest in a strings of efforts by Apple to switch mass manufacturing contracts away from Samsung, it said.

Apple has been long rumored to switching its mobile chip manufacturing from Samsung to TSMC. The iPad maker, has been interested to remove Samsung’s presence from its iOS devices as the companies are involved in a number of patent infringement lawsuits around the world. The entire transition from Samsung to TSMC chips is expected to take as long as 18 months to complete.

Samsung confirms Jelly Bean update to Galaxy Note, brings multi-window

Premium suite for the original Galaxy Note was rumored to come with multi-view window, Google Now, video preview with S pen in air, etc. Now Samsung has confirmed this premium suite will be heading to Galaxy Note.

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Apple reportedly moving its ARM chip supplies away from Samsung

According to a report from China Times, a Taiwanese publication, Apple is shifting its “flip-chip chip scale package for ARM chips” contract from Samsung’s SEMCO to Taiwanese printed circuit board maker Unimicron Technology Corp. Unimicron is a Taiwan based semiconductor company which deals with PCB related technology. This move clearly indicates Apple’s unwillingness to work with Samsung.

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Samsung unveils ChatON 2.0 with cross device syncing, new social features and more

Samsung’s cross platform chat application, ChatON, has received a major update bringing the version number to 2.0.5. The app serves as a competitor to the extremely popular WhatsApp and Asia based competitors like WeChat.

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Samsung GT-N5100 appears on GLBenchmark

Looks like Samsung is launching a new Samsung Galaxy Note. The GT-N5100 just recently got benchmarked and its results turned up on GLBenchmark website. Looking at the model number, N usually is used for the Note.

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Innolux to begin mass production of 1080p 5″ displays from Q1 2013

Taipei display manufacturer CHIMEI Innolux will be mass producing 5″ 1080p display from Q1 2013, which means almost all the major devices manufactured next year will be sporting this gorgeous display.

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Foldable displays look possible with Samsung’s latest patent

Samsung is the leader when it comes to display technology, they have been manufacturing one of the best displays from quite some time, Samsung had patented the concept of foldable display in South Korea  in the year 2006, the recently granted U.S patent for Samsung’s foldable display actually shows some positive light in this concept.

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Samsung details ‘Premium Suite’ features, includes Multi-Window and Page Buddy

As part of an update to Android Jellybean, Samsung is pushing a “Premium Suite” of features for users of the Samsung Galaxy S3. The features have already been seen on the Galaxy Note II and are quite nifty.

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Smartphone sales rise 47 percent as worldwide phone sales go down 3 percent

Third quarter of the year is usually really bad for mobile phone manufacturers as there are no huge celebrations where people buy devices and it is also the time where new devices are unveiled which will be launched during Christmas. So people tend to wait for Christmas time where all the mobile manufacturers try to bring in their best devices. Gartner’s research shows that mobile phone sales has gone down 3% compared to last year but in the same research smaprtphone sales has gone up 47%.

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Samsung ATIV Odyssey Windows Phone 8 handset leaked

At its Windows Phone 8 launch event last month, Microsoft had revealed a 2nd Samsung WP8 device which would head to Verizon. This handset would accompany the higher end ATIV S. The image of the handset was however kept under wraps. We can now see what the Samsung ATIV Odyssey looks like thanks to EVLeaks.

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Samsung ATIV S hands-on

Recently we got a chance to play with the Samsung ATIV S running Windows Phone 8. While HTC and Nokia have already brought their WP8 devices to market, the ATIV S is Samsung’s top end WP8 handset and is yet anywhere. Like competing WP8 devices, the ATIV S too is powered by a 1.5Ghz Snapdragon S4 processor paired with 1GB of RAM.

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Samsung Sells Over 30 Million Units of Galaxy S III

Recently we informed you that Samsung has managed to sell 3 million units of the Galaxy Note II within just over a month of it’s release. Now Samsung has announced that it has also managed to sell over 30 million units of the Galaxy S III.

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Nexus 10 leaks, runs Android 4.2 on a 2500 x 1600 10.1″ screen

Google is widely expected to launch a second larger tablet at its upcoming Android centric event to provide a higher end offering alongside its current Nexus 7. The Nexus 10 was today leaked by BriefMobile and as expected, runs Android 4.2 on Samsung manufactured hardware. The screen is a 10.1″ unit with a resolution of 2500×1600. This results in a ppi of 298.9 which is most definitely higher than that on the iPad’s retina display.

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‘Samsung did not copy’ statement published by Apple

If you’ve been following the Apple vs Samsung case you’ll know that while the German and US courts had ruled in Apple’s favor awarding them over 1 billion dollars in damages, the UK courts passed judgement that Samsung had not copied Apple. In accordance with the court’s ruling, Apple today published a statement stating that Samsung did not infringe on their copyright.

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Acer planning to launch an Intel chip-based smartphone in Q4 of 2012

Acer has been manufacturing Android smartphone devices for quite some time now. The Taiwanese computer maker’s latest move in expanding its presence in the mobile market now plans to include the launch of an Intel powered smartphone by the end of the year.

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