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In a now-deleted post on the Chinese microblogging platform Weibo, Samsung announced that its next-gen Exynos GPU will support ray tracing (via Ice Universe). If you are not versed with this term, ray tracing essentially simulates the physical behavior of light. This technology allows for more accurate and realistic reflections of light rays. The result is improvements to lighting effects and shadows in graphics. Samsung has provided a side-by-side comparison of graphics output in a mobile game with and without ray tracing....

South Korean regulatory agency Saftey Korea recently certified a tiny battery pack with model number EB-BR900ABY. This power unit should sit inside an upcoming Samsung smartwatch bearing the model number SM-R900, which should be none other than the 40mm Galaxy Watch5. More importantly, this battery pack has a rated capacity of 276mAh (1.07Wh/3.88V). That is notably more than the 247mAh unit that powers the 40mm Galaxy Watch4 (about 11.7% more). Based on this, the entire Galaxy Watch5 lineup — which should include two vanilla Watch5 models (40mm SM-R900 and 44mm SM-R910) and two Watch5 Classic models (42mm SM-R920 and 46mm SM-R930), as well as their cellular variants (SM-R905, SM-R915, SM-R925, and SM-R935 respectively) — should get bigger batteries....

BOE loses LCD TV panel orders from Samsung BOE loses LCD TV panel orders from Samsung BOE has been one of Samsung’s key suppliers of LCD panels for TVs. It enjoyed a lot of exposure from this partnership as the Korean firm is the world’s largest TV maker. BOE leveraged Samsung’s global presence and used its name for marketing purposes. The latter expectedly wants the former to pay royalties for using its image....

This will be the first chip that comes out as a collaboration between Samsung and AMD. In other words, it will include an AMD GPU, something that Samsung confirmed quite some time ago. The Exynos 2200 launch date is set for mid-January The Exynos 2200 launch date is set for mid-January Some people were expecting this chip to drop in December, but Samsung decided to schedule its launch date in mid-January....

The Galaxy S22 series is getting telephoto camera support in hyperlapse mode The Galaxy S22 series is getting telephoto camera support in hyperlapse mode To begin with, Samsung is adding support for the 3X telephoto camera when shooting hyperlapse videos. The Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22+, and Galaxy S22 Ultra all feature a 10MP telephoto camera with 3X optical zoom. The latter also features a 10X telephoto camera, but it seemingly doesn’t support hyperlapse videos....