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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.

Samsung has reportedly achieved a 3D transistor design milestone, which could reshape and improve future chip performance. The company continues to expand its technological footprint, along with nurturing the Foundry and LSI divisions. According to ZDNet (via SemiconductorsX), Samsung walked away from VLSI 2026 with the Best Paper award after presenting a 3D Stacked FET design that squeezes more transistors into less space than anything the industry has managed before.

Samsung is bringing the Galaxy XR headset to the UK, with preorders opening today. The company has also confirmed that the extended reality headset will be available for purchase, starting on July 8 in the country. The Galaxy XR headset first landed in the US as a limited release product. The Korean tech giant is now expanding the availability of the new form factor. The segment is slated for consistent growth over the next few years.

June 17, 2026 | Samsung has recently released the third One UI 9 Beta update for the Galaxy S26 series. While everyone’s busy finding new features buried in the huge ~ 2GB update, our team discovered a silent design reversal. The glow-up that Samsung’s Finder icon has in One UI 9 Beta has been lost in the One UI 9 Beta 3 version. The icon has returned to the design state it had in One UI 8.5, probably due to a bug, as the reversal doesn’t look fine at all.

Samsung announced the new One UI 9 Health app experience on June 4, promised it would begin rolling out on June 8, and then went quiet. That silence broke at VivaTech 2026 in Paris, where Samsung used Europe’s largest startup and tech conference to formally plant its flag in the connected health space. The showcase also served as the green light for the rollout to finally begin.

Qualcomm officially introduced the Snapdragon Reality Elite processor for the Android XR ecosystem. The latest XR platform has plenty of major upgrades, among them, five stand out given their scope of influence on the user experience. The Snapdragon Reality Elite landed at Augmented World Expo. What Qualcomm is holding is a purpose-built XR (extended reality) processor designed to push mixed reality past the awkward phase it’s been stuck in for years.

Samsung is quietly gearing up for the next big step in memory technology. According to recent reports (via @SemiconductorsX), the company is working with partners to introduce equipment for its 7th-generation 10nm-class DRAM, called “1d,” with mass production targeted for late 2027. Right now, Samsung’s latest is the 1c (6th-gen) process at around 11-12nm. The new 1d shrinks that to about 10-11nm.

WhatsApp developers have begun open beta testing of a new About section, which carries a proper live preview screen. It shows exactly how your About text appears inside a chat before you save anything. Before this update, you were basically guessing. You’d write something, save it, open a conversation, check how it looked, go back, edit it, repeat the whole cycle. The redesign consolidates three previously separate steps into a single interface, well described by WABetaInfo.

Google, Tesla, AMD, BYD, and others are in talks with Samsung Foundry about shifting advanced chip production away from TSMC, according to sources familiar with the matter. According to NikkesiAsia (via Jukan), Samsung Foundry is in talks with several global giants for contract production of AI chips. • Google is weighing whether to have Samsung build its Axion processors, due around 2028, and potentially a portion of its TPUs for AI workloads.

At AWE USA 2026, Samsung Display showcased its next-gen AR Smart Glasses prototype with advanced technologies, including 40000-nit screens. The company’s RGB OLEDoS on Silicon technology hit that number on a 1.3-inch panel, demonstrated inside an installation called “The Big Dipper.” Seven panels and two of them push that 40,000-nit figure. The AR glasses prototype is the more interesting play here.