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.

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 is still weeks away from its official unveiling, but the Android 17 release handed us a feature demo. The new OS went live on Pixel devices yesterday, and a significant chunk of what it does is built specifically for foldables.

Since the Galaxy Z Flip 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8, and Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra launch with One UI 9 on top of Android 17, what you’re seeing on Pixel right now is a preview of what’s landing on Samsung’s most premium device next month.

Foldable Gaming Mode

Google built a dedicated gaming mode into Android 17 for foldables. It splits the inner display 50/50 game on the top half, with virtual gamepad controls on the bottom.

The gaming mode isn’t fully live yet, even on Pixel. Google confirmed it’s arriving via OTA in the coming months. Given the Fold 8 launches in late July, Samsung has time to ship One UI 9 with this already in place. Timing works in their favour.

Multitasking bubbles

The biggest new thing in Android 17 is Bubbles, a system-wide floating window mode. Long-press any app icon, and it opens as a resizable overlay on top of whatever you’re already doing.

Google says it’s useful for keeping maps, notes, or a sports score up while you work in another app. Combined with the inner display real estate on the Fold 8, Bubbles turns the phone into something that starts closing the gap with a desktop setup.

The Galaxy Z Fold 8 is widely expected on July 22 at Unpacked in London, shipping out of the box with One UI 9 on Android 17. Samsung has confirmed that the stable One UI 9 release on new foldables will include advanced AI features.

Hardware upgrades on the Fold 8 are substantial: a 200MP main sensor, 5,000mAh battery, 45W charging, and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. The software story is just as important this cycle, and Android 17 makes a real case for it.

Everything Google showed off on Pixel yesterday is what Samsung could be selling next month.

On June 16, Samsung pushed the third One UI 9 Beta update with 9 big bug fixes. In particular, Samsung has included new camera focus improvements for Galaxy S26 users, specifically targeting the 30x digital zoom shots.

Galaxy S26 phones come with 30x zoom support, with the Ultra camera going up to 100x. Users mostly rely on 1x and 2x for everyday shots and 5x for distant photography. 30x is a digital zoom range offered by the telephoto camera sensor.

New camera focus improvements for 30x zoom

The One UI 9 Beta 3 update changelog specifically mentions “improved focus accuracy when using 30x camera zoom.” The improvements are included in the Beta update, so the availability is limited to Beta participants in six countries.

Samsung Camera activates focus lock after a certain zoom range. It appears on the screen as a Yellow padlock, ensuring minimal shake during shots. You get enough support to tap the shutter and capture the image on your phone.

Your Galaxy phone’s camera will now focus more accurately on distant objects. The real enhancements can be experienced when magnified to 30x. Improved focus will result in clearer shots with better colors and details.

One UI 9 Beta 3 Update

The third Beta update weighs around 1.8GB, a huge one. It’s nearly three times larger than the second Beta build and a little smaller than the first full version. The massive size suggests that Samsung has included more than just fixes.

It’s a great development for Beta users who have enrolled their phones in the Program. They are helping Samsung perfect the Galaxy experience for millions of users. The faster the bugs will be erased, the earlier the Stable rollout kicks off.

One UI 9 official version will launch with the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Flip 8, and Fold 8 Ultra in late July 2026.

Samsung is now rolling out the June 2026 update to the Galaxy S25, S25+, S25 Edge, and S25 Ultra in more regions, bringing 3 new AI features from the latest Galaxy S26 series.

The update was initially released for Korean users last week. Samsung offered the AI-powered Notification highlights feature to last year’s flagship models. Notably, those tools were missing in the Stable One UI 8.5 update.

Here are the details of the newly added AI features, followed by the update’s availability status:

AI-powered Notification highlights

June update installs Galaxy S26-like Notification highlights tab in Galaxy S25 series devices. This page has two main notification handling tools along with a few supplementary settings/functions.

1 | Prioritise notifications

This feature uses Artificial Intelligence to smartly manage how notifications are displayed in the panel. The system is designed to push important notifications to the top of the page, even though there are newer alerts.

Notifications that are prioritised feature a separate glow-up appearance. It’s aimed at offering instant attention to the user and actually realizing the priority state.

2 | Summarise notifications

We use different apps and services for everyday communications, and they form a massive number of notifications. The Summarise notifications feature practically handles the overload of alerts and intelligently summarises them for you.

The feature, in the meantime, has some limitations, such as support for the device language only. Since it’s powered by AI, you should not solely rely on summaries, as it might deliver conflicting information for certain reasons.

3 | Summarise compatible files

Samsung has also updated its My Files app with a summarization feature. Found under the Settings of My Files, the Show file summaries feature offers AI-powered summaries of PDF and TXT files as well as recordings saved using Voice Recorder.

Availability

Initial rollout – June 11

• On June 11, Samsung started the June 2026 update rollout in South Korea, which came with PDA build version ending with CZF1 and weighing a lit lesser than a gigabyte.

USA, India, and Europe release – June 15

• Samsung starts expanding its feature-rich June 2026 update to users in the United States, India and Europe.
  • Build version – CZF1
  • Update size – Around 950 megabytes

The page will be updated with the next major expansion.

Over the past few days, Samsung Galaxy S23 owners, including some on the S23+ and S23 Ultra, have been posting about a familiar but unwelcome visitor on their displays: thin green or pink vertical lines that show up out of nowhere.

Right on cue, every fresh round of Samsung software updates seems to bring its own little surprise, and the latest One UI 8.5 rollout is no exception.

The reports started surfacing on X and across Samsung’s own community forums, and by now there are enough of them that it’s hard to write this off as a handful of unlucky units.

One user shared a picture of his S23 Ultra’s screen with a bright green line running top to bottom, insisting the phone had no drops, no cracks, and no water exposure, just a software update that, in his words, turned a pink line into a green one within days. Another user reported the same thing on a Galaxy phone shortly after updating.

Owners in India are being quoted between INR 15,000 and INR 19,500 for an out-of-warranty screen replacement, while a similar repair in other markets is pegged at roughly $205.

This isn’t actually a new problem for Samsung. The “green line of death,” as some forum regulars half-jokingly call it, has been popping up on Galaxy phones for years now, going back to the Galaxy S20 series, with Plus model affected the most.

Samsung even ran free display replacement programs in India, regardless of warranty status, because the issue was tied to a hardware fault in the display panel rather than something a software patch could realistically cause on its own.

Repair technicians point toward the display’s flexible cable connectors or the panel driver itself. A new update doesn’t need to “cause” damage outright; it just needs to nudge an already-weakened part past its breaking point.

For now, this is very much a developing situation. We’ll update this piece if Samsung issues any kind of statement or offers free replacements.