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Posted: August 14, 2018 Contributing Author: Daniel Yang Inside the Samsung Galaxy Note9 Teardown Samsung officially released its latest Galaxy Note9 on August 9th. Our procurement team did an amazing job in getting the phone into our labs the very next day! The model of our Note9 is AT&T SM-N960U,

Posted: April 11, 2018 Contributing Author: Jeongdong Choe, Senior Technical Fellow We at TechInsights are happy to report that we have found and analyzed Anti-fuse array blocks on a Samsung 18 nm DDR4 DRAM die. Anti-fuse is one of the embedded NVM technologies, which include: embedded Flash ROM

Posted: April 9, 2018 Contributing Author: Ray Fontaine Our lab team has made good progress on structural analyses of the camera chips from Galaxy S9/S9+. While most of the details are reserved for our subscribers, we did want to share an overview as a follow up to our teardown blog . We confirmed

Posted: March 1, 2018 - Updated: March 21, 2018 Contributing Author: Daniel Yang & Stacy Wegner Samsung Galaxy S9 As we reported in our MWC18 blog, Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphones were officially unveiled in Barcelona on Feb 25, 2018 at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 pre-event

Posted: March 15, 2018 Cost Comparison Observations Cost Comparison Observations As we did when the Apple X and Huawei Mate 10 phones were released, we have compiled a brief comparison between some of the biggest flagship phones out there… this time, centred around Samsung’s Galaxy S9+. Here, we are

February 16, 2018 Contributing Authors: Stacy Wegner, Daniel Yang, Kim Waterman The Apple HomePod, before it was sent to our labs Cost Comparison Observations Since the introduction of the Amazon Echo smart speaker back in 2015, OEMs like Google, Xiaomi, Lenovo and others have released their own

Posted: February 7, 2018 Contributing Authors: Dirk Caspary, David Olaogbebikan and Martin Bijman It has been a year since Microsoft released the Azure IP Advantage program – a service that “provides the industry’s most comprehensive protection against intellectual property (IP) risks” by making 10

December 12, 2017 Contributing Authors: Stacy Wegner, Daniel Yang Gear Fit 2 Pro SM-R365 As the gift-giving season approaches and people start dreading thinking of their New Year’s resolutions, the fitness wearable market becomes more active (pun intended, more to come). We have seen our share of

Posted: November 17, 2017 Significant intellectual property has been developed around these algorithms related to error correction, read-retry techniques, wear leveling, garbage collection, data flush, and data trimming, amongst others. Testing the interface between the controller and the flash

Posted: November 10, 2017, Updated: November 15, 2017 Contributing Authors: Al Cowsky, Stacy Wegner While Apple and Samsung have been engaged in a tug-of-war for the title of top-selling smartphone provider over the past couple of years, China’s dominant OEM – Huawei – has been quietly gaining