Sound United gets snapped up by Samsung’s HARMAN 

Masimo, better known for sticking sensors on sick people than flogging headphones, has finally offloaded its Sound United consumer audio unit to HARMAN International for $350 million in cash.

AMD's chip love affair with Korea over 

AMD has pulled the plug on a once-promising deal with Samsung Foundry, ditching the Korean giant’s SF4X process in favour of TSMC’s shiny US operations in Arizona.

Markets smell trouble ahead

Qualcomm blew past the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street’s expectations with a $10.9 billion revenue haul for its second fiscal quarter ending March 2025, a 17 per cent rise. Adjusted earnings per share sat at $2.85, comfortably above consensus.

Intel plays the packaging card to keep customers 

Troubled Chipzilla has decided the path to foundry salvation runs straight through the packaging plant. It’s now shouting from the rooftops that its real ace in the silicon arms race isn’t process nodes but how it wraps the goods.

Low yields, high hopes, and no Snapdragon 8 Elite 

Samsung’s cost-cutting obsession has apparently reached new heights, as the outfit's mobile division is rumoured to be ditching Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite in favour of its own Exynos 2500 for the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 7.

Sales hit in mobiles, AI  and memory chips

Samsung Electronics reckons looming US tariffs could sink demand for its smartphones and memory chips, with the South Korean giant sounding the alarm during its latest earnings call.

UBS and Gartner slash forecasts

Beancounters at UBS and Gartner have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and reduced their PC and smartphone market forecasts, citing “mounting pressures from trade tariffs and broader macroeconomic uncertainties” that will hammer consumer demand through 2026.

Lazy chip recycle

Samsung’s obsession with flogging dead horses continues with the Galaxy S25 FE limping out with the same Exynos 2400e processor found in last year’s S24 FE. 

S24 owners locked out, rollout yanked globally

Samsung’s long-awaited One UI 7 rollout has been halted after a nasty bug prevented Galaxy S24 owners from unlocking their phones.

 
Chinese brands blitz old guard

By late 2027 or early 2028, the planet will have more smartphones than people, and the industry's old titans are watching the tide turn.