CES 2019: Samsung Press Event (starts 2pm PT, 10pm UTC)
by Andrei Frumusanu on January 7, 2019 4:51 PM EST04:58PM EST - Hello everybody, another big press conference today - this time it's Samsung's turn.
05:02PM EST - President and CEO of Samsung Electronics taking the stage
05:02PM EST - 50th anniversary of Samsung
05:02PM EST - Started off with black&white TVs
05:03PM EST - Starting off with IoT / Smarthings
05:05PM EST - 5G - High speed, capacity
05:06PM EST - Samsung helping out Verizon to roll out 5G in the US
05:06PM EST - Samsung is the only supplier for 5G equipment in Korea
05:07PM EST - Samsung to be the first to release a 5G smartphone
05:08PM EST - Samsung is consolidating all its AI efforts into Bixby
05:08PM EST - Samsung is consolidating all its AI efforts into Bixby
05:09PM EST - Bixby will be in 2019 QLED TVs and other products
05:10PM EST - Bixby is a scalable open platform, and will continue to grow as more partners join the ecosystem
05:10PM EST - Uber, Ticketmaster, and all Google services to be brought to Bixby
05:11PM EST - Samsung has opened several AI R&D centres all around the world
05:12PM EST - 2019 will see consumers start to see Samsung's vision of new AI applicaitons
05:13PM EST - SVP of Samsung Electronics America, Yoon Lee taking the stage
05:14PM EST - Samsung has built a AI service engine
05:15PM EST - Samsung is bringing new ways of connected living, in a way, only Samsung can
05:15PM EST - Samsung has been the global leader in TV for 13 years
05:16PM EST - Today's menu: Micro LED, 8K TVs, and more content providers
05:17PM EST - Sales of bigger screens has doubled over the last few years
05:17PM EST - 98" 8K QLED TV
05:18PM EST - Quantum Dot with full array local diming
05:18PM EST - HDMI 2.1 Support
05:19PM EST - 8K AI upscaling of lower resolution sources
05:19PM EST - New "Quantum 8K" TV SoC powering the new 33MP display pipeline
05:20PM EST - New high fidelity content from Amazon Prime
05:21PM EST - New Samsung AI Codec?
05:21PM EST - I wonder if this is just AI assisted HEVC encoding?
05:22PM EST - 65, 75, 82 and 85" versions of the 8K to be available
05:22PM EST - Reiterating on yesterday's announcement of iTunes integration in Samsung TVs
05:23PM EST - Universal guide using AI to figure out your viewing habits and give suggestions across all service providers
05:23PM EST - Integration with Bixby
05:24PM EST - AirPlay compatibility
05:24PM EST - Samsung TV to work with Alexa, Google assistant and Bixby
05:25PM EST - Far-field voice on the remote
05:26PM EST - Bixby queries based on contextual awareness
05:29PM EST - Using Bixby on other Bixby enabled devices allows you to do queries, and then have it displayed on the TV
05:29PM EST - Switching over to household appliances
05:31PM EST - New family hub with improved UX
05:32PM EST - New "family board" to be used on the Family Hub
05:33PM EST - New washers with wider and shallower drums.
05:34PM EST - Bixby connected of course
05:34PM EST - Demo with the Family Board
05:35PM EST - Sharing photos from your devices to the Family Hub is easy as using the share intent on Android
05:37PM EST - Full Bixby functionality much like you'd expect on a smartphone
05:40PM EST - New PC announcement
05:41PM EST - Notebook 9 Pro
05:42PM EST - S-Pen compatibility
05:43PM EST - New Odessey gaming notebook
05:43PM EST - Latest gen Intel CPU and Nvidia RTX GPU
05:45PM EST - New automotive dashboard concept in cooperation with Harman
05:46PM EST - Bixby interoperability between devices and the car - even remotely
05:47PM EST - In-vehicle Samsung DeX
05:47PM EST - Up to 6 screens compatibility
05:48PM EST - Vision capabilities - I'm sensing a reference to the newly announced Exynos Auto
05:49PM EST - Samsung Semiconductor taking the stage
05:50PM EST - 70% of data in 2021 will be processed at the edge
05:51PM EST - The semi team will bring processing nearer to the edge with more performance
05:51PM EST - Offline AI is the main goal
05:52PM EST - Exynos Auto will bring Samsung's newest ML hardware to the market
05:54PM EST - Samsung Bot Care, Bot Air new robotic platforms
05:58PM EST - That's a wrap - Next press event is Intel in an hour!
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