Samsung Says It May Skip Galaxy Note Release This Year Due To Global Chip Shortage

[1258186]

The iterative updates are better for consumers I think. It means when a new iPhone comes out, your 7 month old phone isn't that different.

Apart from when they change the design like they did with the iPhone 12.
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[Premium1]

With their current lineup (mainly the plus and ultra) the note seems kind of unnecessary anymore. Just keep going with the 3 flagship devices (at different screen sizes) and have the larger one with the S-Pen support.

 

[DeepIn2U]

Wow big news. I’m not a note fan but the hardware is good.

Well Samsung can always use their own Exynos chips ... oh wait ... those are fabbed by TSMC ... so I guess they did NOT lock in a deal for the right supply amount in advance then? Next year I guess Samsung will spend less money on poking fun at Apple and more on sourcing chips in advance for demand.

hardware is good ... just the synergy is still off. That said I'll bet this has less to do with chip supply and more to do with an obvious overlap of the S21 5G Plus and the Note.

 

[I7guy]

Well Samsung can always use their own Exynos chips ... oh wait ... those are fabbed by TSMC ... so I guess they did NOT lock in a deal for the right supply amount in advance then? Next year I guess Samsung will spend less money on poking fun at Apple and more on sourcing chips in advance for demand.

hardware is good ... just the synergy is still off. That said I'll bet this has less to do with chip supply and more to do with an obvious overlap of the S21 5G Plus and the Note.

And when I suggest Tim the supply chain guru is keeping Apple products moving to the best that can be done, I get some haha's and downvotes. To miss out on a revenue stream, must mean this is worse than they are admitting publicly.

 

[dannyyankou]

Nice excuse lol. Yes I know there is a chip shortage, but there have been rumors for a while of Samsung discontinuing the Note line due to struggling sales.

 

[DeepIn2U]

And when I suggest Tim the supply chain guru is keeping Apple products moving to the best that can be done, I get some haha's and downvotes. To miss out on a revenue stream, must mean this is worse than they are admitting publicly.

Riight? I see those downvotes and all the teasing hooplahs ... but we don't see iPhones cancelled. The delay was production volume meeting expectations and 2 completely new designs for the 8/8+ and the X release timeframe. Last year it was the 12/12 Pro/12 Pro Max and the 12 Mini ... same design but 4 distinctly different models in 3 different shells. These were the only times of launch delays that I recall.

 

[mi7chy]

Well Samsung can always use their own Exynos chips ... oh wait ... those are fabbed by TSMC

False. Both latest Snapdragon 888 and Exynos 2100 are fabbed on Samsung 5nm.

 

[DeepIn2U]

False. Both latest Snapdragon 888 and Exynos 2100 are fabbed on Samsung 5nm.

I stand corrected ... TSMC had been up to their 7nm processed chips

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjFx5fkvbjvAhUCT98KHTYSCA4QFjAHegQIChAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gsmarena.com%2Fsamsung_will_be_fabbing_the_snapdragon_865_chipset-news-37517.php&usg=AOvVaw1vf-aQKFsjBuyV52KjkDMR

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[macsareveryinteresting]

That might make certain Samsung owners mad.

 

[MacBH928]

This makes me think of us as a society. Here they don't have enough chips, and in the past we had hundreds of millions of Android and iPhones with chips considered super computers in past time. Where do they go? to the eWaste along with all the sdd's, rams, batteries, and wifi modems.

I just wish there was a way to recycle to those computer chips somehow by combining them to gather and make larger cluster than can calculate stuff, people seem not to have enough calculations going on like Bitcoin, weather, and that protein thing for cancer.

 

[Ulfric]

Can’t Samsung make its own chips?

Nvidia & Qualcomm have gobbled up almost 95% of Fab capacity from Samsung. It barely leaves any wafer for Samsung Electronics themselves at all.

With GPU demand at all time high, It's not coming down any soon at all.