Η Samsung φαίνεται να έπιασε το νόημα;

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. might not be the most secretive player in the technology world, but it's in the running.

So it's no surprise that the company would have little to say about what products it will make as part of the gigantic plant expansion it has announced for its Northeast Austin manufacturing complex.

For the first time since the complex opened 14 years ago, Samsung will make products in Central Texas that aren't memory chips. Samsung used to make DRAM — the most common kind of computer memory — at Fab 1 
in Austin. The fabrication plant now makes flash memory — most commonly used in cell phones and other mobile devices — in Fab 2, Phase 1.

But for the expansion, known as Fab 2, Phase 2, the company says it will make LSI — large-scale integration — chips designed for use in mobile devices. Much of the rest of the chip industry usually calls those chips SoCs, for system on a chip.

Such chips typically have a processing core plus other peripheral functions that can include communications, memory controllers, multimedia acceleration, keypad and touch-screen controllers, display controllers and even wireless communications controllers.

In a world of battery-powered portable devices, such power-conserving devices are crucial.

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Σε καλό δρόμο βρίσκεται η Samsung και μεταξύ τα Android (και όχι μόνο) κινητά, αν ΔΕΝ υπήρχε το iPhone, είναι η μοναδική εταιρία που θα έπαιρνα στα σοβαρά. HTC και π@π@ρ!ε$...