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Samsung has started mass production of 4 Gb DDR3 memory chips in 20-nanometer manufacturing process.  According to the manufacturer, production of DRAM chips in fewer nanometer technology is more demanding job in relation to the NAND flash memory chips. While NAND in every cell requires only a transistor, 0DRAM memory must have both transistor and capacitor.

The Wall Street Journal has information about Google's upcoming smart watch based on Android. The device will serve same as the Nexus line as an example of the reference design of smart watches, sources say.

A day that many have eagerly expected has arrived and Samsung has officialy unveiled ther new flagship, Galaxy S5. The device has a full HD screen of 5.1 inches, as well as new software that helps it to achieve the proper screen brightness and contrast in different conditions. S5 uses quad core Snapdragon 800 processor clocked at 2.5GHz processor and Adreno 330 graphics processor.

Apple's new A8 processor will be manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, according to sources in Taiwanese TechNews. Samsung would so be left out of orders for the production of processors for Apple.

Early February was not good for Samsung's mobile operating system Tizen, namely Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo has dropped out of the upcoming supply of smart phones powered by this OS. This seemed like the beginning of a bad trend.

The alleged specifications of three new Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 models were revealed that belong to the middle price segment of the market. The first of them, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.0 4 should have an 8 inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels, a processor with four cores running at 1.2 GHz, 1 GB of RAM (1.5 GB or in a version that supports LTE mobile network), 16 GB of free space for data storage and a microSD card slot. There is also a 3 megapixel front camera, 6800 mAh battery and Android 4.4 KitKat operating system.

After he announced that Google will shut down Nexus brand, Eldar Murtazin is now claiming to possess the most accurate specifications of Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone that has yet to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress.

If you believe a sources within the company, whose info was transferred by the Korean ZDNet, the new Samsung smart watch should experience a complete redesign. Experts are already wondering whether this is a response to the lack of good sales results of the first generation Galaxy gear, or prepare for increasing competition in the market of smart watches, including even Apple's iWatch which does not exist yet.

As expected, earnings of the Korean technology giant Samsung has dropped in the last quarter of 2013. Compared to the year before, the company's profit decreased by 6%, and stopped at 7.73 billion. The operating profit of the department who earns the most, one for mobile devices, has remained the same as a year ago, but fell by as much as 18 % compared to the previous quarter. It is believed that the reason for this is the release of new iPhone models which dragged away customers from Samsung, especially in the pre-Christmas period.

Apple and Samsung were the world's largest buyers of chips last year among device manufacturers with total revenues exceeding one billion dollars according to data collected by the company IHS. Apple took the first spot with a total consumption of the chips in the amount of 30.3 billion dollars, while Samsung took second place with $20.2 billion spent on chips.