Samsung unveils two new foldable smartphones

Years ahead of Apple. Apple fanboys now vote me down because you know it.

Where is Japanese phone in this discussion? Usually Japan will accuse other countries stealing Japanese technology. The reason why Japan doesn't do that at this time because Japan still stuck with antiques phones that interest no one by this point.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/09/business/japanese-smartphones-struggling/

I have first gen flip Z my screen in the middle has cracked from opening and closing. I hope they worked that issue out.

I will upgrade soon. (Samsung) chip factory they are budding here in Pyeongtaek is a marvel. Its a small city.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qz40ve0RPY

I've had he flip 4 since it first came out and love it. I will wait until the Flip 6 to upgrade. Not seeing enough upgrades in the Flip 5 to justify the cost of changing from the flip 4 to flip 5, but the flip 5 does look cool. I can't imagine ever going back to a brick phone after using a Samsung flip.

Samsung profits dropped 95%. Samsung has laid off 500,000. The U.S. chips war has Samsung in the frontline.

This is from Taiwan and not from China (The founder of TSMC also says this won’t fly.)

TSMC estimates that they need 13 Factories plus another 7 from Korea to be able to match the demand and achieve sufficient scale to maintain some profitability

The cost would be a minimum of $240 Billion a year

Add to this at least 6000 Specialized Workers who were to be paid $ 34,000 a year from Korea and Taiwan who out right refused and reasonably demanded $61,000 minimum salary on par with the lowest engineers in the US.

That's $1.05 Billion a year including all other services and labor costs and welfare measures

Thus the US Chip program needs around $2.7 Trillion in the first 10 years

Their budget is $230 Billion in 5 years