Netlist has filed complaints at the US International Trade Commission and the Eastern District of Texas, seeking an import ban on Samsung HBM and DDR5 RDIMM and MRDIMM DRAM AI memory product lines.

It’s demanding import bans (via SemiconductorsX) and sales prohibitions across the board, and it didn’t stop at Samsung. Notably, Google, NVIDIA, Broadcom, and Supermicro are also named alongside Samsung in the complaint filed by Netlist.

The patents at the center of this are U.S. Patent Nos. 12,646,537 and 12,650,937, both registered this year. The ‘537 covers vertically stacked memory dies with TSV structures, the core architecture inside every HBM chip Samsung ships.

The “937” covers a clock driver trick that repurposes an error signal line during initialization. Neither one, Netlist argues, is a JEDEC standard-essential patent, so Samsung can’t hide behind RAND licensing terms.

Samsung and Netlist signed a joint development deal back in 2015. Samsung walked in 2020. Two Texas juries have since handed Netlist $303 million and $118 million in willful infringement verdicts. Samsung kept shipping anyway.

Samsung Electronics previously entered into a licensing agreement with Netlist in 2015 but breached it in 2020. Despite twice receiving verdicts of willful patent infringement and damages awards (amounting to $303 million and $118 million, respectively) from federal juries in Texas, Samsung continues to import the infringing products into the United States.

C.K. Hong, CEO of Netlist, stated, “Netlist continues to lead innovative breakthroughs in the AI memory sector. This legal action expands our efforts to protect next-generation server DIMM and HBM technologies from unauthorized use.”

Samsung’s HBM3E is inside NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs. Those GPUs are inside data centers that half the AI industry depends on. A successful exclusion order wouldn’t just sting Samsung; it would have a very broad impact.

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Samsung isn’t the kind of company you stiff on a contract and walk away from clean; Triller learned that lesson the hard way, and it’s still learning it.

According to TheBiz, Samsung is seeking nearly $3 million from Triller after the short-video platform allegedly failed to pay for a Galaxy app promotion deal.

The dispute began in December 2020, when Samsung and Triller signed an agreement where Samsung would promote Triller’s app on Galaxy smartphones, with Triller paying based on installations.

Payments were made initially, but between April and September 2021, Triller stopped paying, leaving $1.81 million in unpaid principal.

Samsung filed for ICC arbitration in July 2022. Triller argued that some installations were generated by bots and raised concerns about suspicious traffic, but the company never completed its defense. Its legal counsel withdrew.

Triller did not submit a response or request a hearing; the ICC ruled in Samsung’s favor. Samsung then moved to enforce the award in the US federal court, where the Central District of California confirmed the judgment in May 2024.

With interest, arbitration costs, and legal fees added, the amount reached nearly $3 million.

The case continued after Triller’s parent company, Triller Group, listed a roughly $3 million “Samsung Arbitration Award” liability in its 2025 SEC filing.

Samsung used that disclosure to seek to add Triller Group as a judgment debtor, but the court denied the request due to procedural issues, allowing Samsung to refile after proper notice.

Triller Group was delisted from Nasdaq in December 2024 and continues facing creditor pressure. Samsung is pursuing enforcement through asset tracing and legal measures, showing the company is not ready to abandon the unpaid debt.

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Google officially released the Wear OS 7 update for Pixel Watch models. The new wearable platform introduces a battery life boost, Live Updates, Gemini Intelligence, and cross-device connectivity.

Samsung will bring the new wearable operating system to its Galaxy devices through the One UI 9 Watch update. A Beta Program was assumed to have already started, but users are still awaiting an announcement.

Meanwhile, Samsung is more widely rolling out its May 2026 security patches. In the latest expansion, the fresh security patches have started to arrive on 8 Samsung Galaxy Watches in the US.

The May 2026 update’s changelog clearly states that the OTA includes the most up-to-date Android security patches. However, the OTA has even more to offer, which Samsung hasn’t even mentioned in the changelog.

Samsung users reported a broken app launch bug on Galaxy Watches in the US. Every time they launch/open an application from the app drawer, it shows a dark black glimpse on the screen and then returns to the app drawer.

Galaxy Watch users found that the problem had been resolved after installing the May 2026 security update. It was initially dropped in South Korea, and a major expansion brought it to users in the United States.

Samsung may have also included system optimization inside. System cache and junk data will also be cleared during installation, which would provide an enhanced user experience.

Software version information:

• Galaxy Watch 4 – R865USQS2JZE1 (40mm) / R875USQS2JZE1 (44mm)
• Galaxy Watch 4 Classic – R885USQS2JZE1 (42mm) / R895USQS2JZE1 (46mm)
• Galaxy Watch 5 – R905USQS2DZE1 (40mm) / R915USQS2DZE1 (44mm)
• Galaxy Watch 5 Pro – R925USQS2DZE1 (45mm)
• Galaxy Watch 6 – R935USQS2CZE1 (40mm) / R945USQS2CZE1 (44mm)
• Galaxy Watch 6 Classic – R955USQS2CZE1 (43mm) / R965USQS2CZE1 (47mm)
• Galaxy Watch FE – R866USQS2BZE1

The updates are available on Verizon-bound Galaxy Watches in the US. You can get the latest software on your smartwatch using the Galaxy Wearable app.

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Samsung is showcasing the Galaxy A37 and Galaxy A57 cameras in collaboration with South African creators. Samsung South Africa teamed up with one of Mzansi’s leading film production companies to drop a short film.

The Korean tech giant has been quietly building something in the Galaxy A series for years. The Galaxy A57 5G and Galaxy A37 5G are the latest proof that AI-powered photography isn’t just for flagship phones anymore.

The short film is less product advertisement and more of a cultural document.

Director Lindo Langa helmed the project, and the result is genuinely cinematic. The film opens frozen, moments suspended just before the shutter clicks, then accelerates into the full kinetic energy of South African youth culture.

It’s the kind of brief you don’t expect from a mid-range phone launch. Content creators Dee Koala, Sine Madondo, Coachella Randy, and Jaedin Rhodes appear as themselves, doing exactly what they do in real life.

Designed to make everyday experiences simpler, smarter, and more intuitive, the new Galaxy A57 5G and A37 5G reflect Samsung’s ongoing commitment to democratising artificial intelligence.

By expanding AI capabilities across more accessible devices, Samsung continues to empower users to do more with the technology in their hands, from capturing meaningful moments to enhancing everyday productivity.

Samsung is pushing AI camera capabilities down into devices that real people can afford. Not everyone is buying an S-series phone, and pretending otherwise is how you lose the next generation of customers.

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Pope Leo XIV is officially a Samsung guy; he rocks a Galaxy phone and wears a Galaxy Watch. When South Korean President Lee Jae-myung visited the Vatican earlier this week, he came away with more than diplomatic goodwill.

During their meeting, Pope Leo XIV held up a Black smartwatch and quizzed the President: “Do you know what this is?” It was a Samsung Galaxy Watch. The Pope then mentioned he also carries a Galaxy smartphone and drives a Hyundai.

For a man who could have his pick of any device, the choice is telling. While Silicon Valley’s flagship products dominate the pockets of most Western leaders and public figures, the leader of Catholics is running on Korean tech.

The Pope’s device preferences emerged as something of a lighthearted footnote to a substantive meeting that covered Korean Peninsula peace efforts, next year’s World Youth Day in Seoul, and a potential papal visit to North Korea.

Samsung’s Galaxy lineup has long held its ground as a premium alternative to Apple, and apparently, that reputation reaches all the way to the Holy See.

Whether by personal preference or happy coincidence, the first American Pope seems to have gone Korean when it counts.

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A new market report reveals that the global smartwatch market has returned to growth, with major brands gaining momentum. Samsung took a different path in Q1 2026, with smartwatch shipments facing a steep decline.

According to Counterpoint Research, the global smartwatch shipments grew 4% YoY in Q1 2026. Analysts believe Apple was the key driver given its newest Watch portfolio, along with growing demand for premium devices.

Samsung was the only smartwatch brand that flagged a massive downturn in its shipments in Q1 2026. The company’s market share declined from 7 percent in Q1 2025 to 5 percent in the first quarter of the year.

The shipment data reveals that Galaxy Watch shipments declined 28 percent YoY. It signals that the company’s wearable strategy requires revisions. A new set of watches is coming next month, and market share is expected to rise.

Apple led the worldwide smartwatch market with 23 percent market share. The US tech giant flagged a steep growth of 21 percent year-on-year. The momentum will continue as Q3 is set to welcome the next-gen wearables.

Huawei also grew 12 percent, with the company’s market share jumping from 16 percent in Q1 2025 to 17 percent in Q1 2026. The Chinese brand ranked second, thanks to aggressive marketing and push from key markets.

The growth of the Chinese market, led by Huawei’s ecosystem push and government subsidies, encouraged consumer upgrades and strengthened overall demand.

Xiaomi maintained its third spot and 10 percent market share in Q1 2026’s smartwatch market. The company’s overall smartwatch shipments grew 9 percent year over year.

imoo was the fourth largest smartwatch vendor in the first quarter, retaining 7 percent market share with 2 percent YoY growth.

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Thanks to the AI momentum, Samsung has just surpassed Bitcoin in terms of market value. Samsung Electronics is sitting at a $1.522 trillion market cap while Bitcoin is at $1.276 trillion; it is a $246 billion gap, and it has widened fast.

The KOSPI cracked 9,000 intraday for the first time ever, dragging semiconductor stocks higher while Bitcoin quietly bled out. SEDaily reports that Samsung climbed to 12th among global assets, while Bitcoin slipped to 15th.

Samsung surpassed Bitcoin on November 1, then lost ground after shares cratered on November 8. Meanwhile, AI chip demand and high-bandwidth memory optimism have since pulled Samsung back ahead.

The gap isn’t shrinking

MarketWatch columnist Mark Hulbert ran the numbers on a fair-value model and surfaced something brutal: Bitcoin converging around $120,000 by 2140 implies an expected annual return of roughly 0.6% over 120 years.

Apart from this, SK Hynix is also running up 6.51% in a single session, its market value reached $1.248 trillion, placing it just $28 billion behind Bitcoin at 16th globally.

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Samsung and a startup called Claros have quietly locked in one of the more technically precise collaborations to surface from the AI infrastructure arms race.

Claros will produce its IVR designs using Samsung Foundry’s US-based 14nm FinFET process. The company’s CEO, Daniel Kultran, has been direct about the friction, saying data center operators keep hitting the same wall because they want integrated voltage regulation but won’t move without volume certainty.

“Samsung’s FinFET process is the manufacturing foundation our IVR needs, and now our customers have a production timeline they can plan around,” said Claros Co-Founder and CEO Daniel Kultran.

Samsung’s Margaret Han, who runs US Foundry operations, signaled that the company sees applications beyond data centers, including industrial and automotive applications.

“Processor-level power delivery is one of the most critical challenges facing AI infrastructure, and Claros is tackling it with a truly forward-looking approach,” said Margaret Han, Executive Vice President and Head of US Foundry at Samsung Electronics.

AI workloads don’t just demand power; they waste it. The industry has been pushing 800 VDC architecture at the rack level, which helps, but stops short.

Without voltage regulation happening millimeters from the actual processor, a significant slice of that efficiency disappears as heat. Claros’s integrated voltage regulator closes that gap, cutting energy loss by up to 30 percent.

This is Claros’s first manufacturing agreement. The company closed a $30 million seed round recently and is now positioned to actually ship at scale.

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Samsung is already preparing Galaxy devices for the quantum security era with the latest Android 16-based One UI 8.5 update. Quantum computers capable of cracking modern encryption aren’t here, but the people building them are working fast.

Most of the encryption protecting your banking apps, your Wi-Fi sessions, and your private messages relies on mathematical problems that traditional computers can’t solve in any reasonable timeframe.

Quantum machines could solve them in minutes. Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is the field that is developing replacement algorithms designed to withstand that kind of computational power.

One UI 8.5 brings quantum-resistant encryption to Secure Wi-Fi, which protects connections on public and shared networks.

Among the security initiatives presented by Samsung are:

• New advanced encryption mechanisms for personal data;
• Intelligent threat monitoring among connected Galaxy devices;
• Preventive features capable of identifying suspicious activities in real time;
• Expansion of Knox Enhanced Encrypted Protection (KEEP), an architecture developed to protect personalized AI features.

Samsung has also expanded Knox Matrix and strengthened Knox Enhanced Encrypted Protection, the architecture built specifically to guard personalized AI features as they process increasingly sensitive behavioral data.

Meanwhile, the Korean tech giant has not published deep technical documentation on exactly which PQC algorithms are being deployed or at what layer, but the direction is right.

Samsung launched One UI 8.5 with the Galaxy S26 flagship phones. The official rollout began in May 2026, and dozens of Galaxy devices have received the update to date.

Beyond that, Samsung embarked on the One UI 9 journey, based on Android 17. The software is available in Beta for the Galaxy S26 series in Germany, India, Poland, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Researchers at Counterpoint Research published the worldwide smartphone sales report for Week 20 of 2026. Samsung maintained its smartphone sales in that period, while Apple and Huawei secured solid growth.

According to the report, the global smartphone sales declined by 8% YoY in Week 20 of 2026, marking the ninth consecutive week of negative growth. Overall, demand remained sluggish during Week 20, despite some promotional events in China and India.

Apple and Huawei were the only phone makers that flagged positive growth. Samsung, at the same time, managed to keep its sales momentum consistent in a declining smartphone market.

Brands with stable supply chains and high visibility into key components such as memory were able to maintain more consistent pricing and promotional strategies. Apple is in an advantageous position in this regard.

Apple grew 10 percent year over year, while Huawei grew a huge 23 percent. Samsung managed to prevent a sales slump, but ended up facing a sales decline of 1 percent year over year.

Chinese vendors, such as Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi, declined 10%, 19%, and 17%, respectively. The phone makers are getting hurt by the rising component costs and the memory price hike.

With supply chain stability emerging as a key differentiator this year, brands with higher supply stability for core components, particularly AI memory, competing with data center demand, widened the gap with their competitors.

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Samsung’s System LSI division just delivered its best-ever first-quarter revenue. Sounds like great news, right? But there’s a catch – the company still expects to end the full year with losses in this part of its chip business.

President Park Yong-in recently talked about the challenges. He said Samsung needs bigger structural changes because demand is soft in several key areas. Even with strong memory (HBM) chip sales, thanks to AI demand, the non-memory side (foundry and System LSI) continues to struggle.

“We achieved the highest level of sales in the first quarter of this year” Park said at the briefing. Park said, “The System-on-Chip (SoC) business is difficult to convert into a surplus in the short term, but we will strive to improve the business body and improve profitability.” “We will create an environment where structural problems can be solved by management and members can focus on technology.”

The one chance? Development of the next flagship Exynos 2700 processor is moving along steadily. Samsung is expected to use it in the next Galaxy S-series phones.

Samsung is clearly treating its foundry business (making chips for other companies) and System LSI (mobile processors and more) as key parts for the entire company.

What’s the real issue? The mobile SoC market is super competitive, and AI demand has not helped every segment the same way. While memory chips are printing money, fixing the logic and foundry side will take serious time and effort.

For long-term success, Samsung is trying to balance its memory and non-memory chip businesses. Investors are watching closely to see if these changes start delivering real results soon.

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