Smart earrings and necklaces? Samsung is looking into new types of wearables
Jonathan Feist / Android Authority
TL;DR Samsung is actively looking into new types of wearable devices.
This includes earrings, necklaces, bracelets, pendants, and so on.
Whatever the company lands on is expected to be a companion device to your phone, rather than a standalone product.
Samsung already offers a long list of products in its mobile portfolio, including smartphones, tablets, and more. Still, the company is looking for ways to expand its mobile offerings. To that end, the company sees creating new types of wearables as its opportunity to grow.
While speaking with CNN, the COO for Samsung's mobile experience division, Won-joon Choi, told the outlet that AI could enable a new wave of devices that don't require you to take out your phone. Samsung envisions that this wave of devices will be new types of wearables that it has yet to explore, like something you place around your neck, wear on your ears, or put on your face.
In the interview, Choi states:
We believe it should be wearable, something that you shouldn't carry, (that) you don't need to carry. So it could be something that you wear, glasses, earrings, watches, rings, and sometimes (a) necklace.
We're already seeing Samsung follow this train of thought with Project Haean. As a refresher, Project Haean is the codename for the Android XR-powered smart glasses the company is currently developing. It's expected that Haean could launch by the end of this year, along with Samsung's XR headset Project Moohan.
Outside of smart glasses, you might be wondering what else the tech giant is considering. Samsung is currently 'looking at all kinds of possibilities,' Choi responded when asked if the company is actively looking into smart jewelry. 'What do you wear? Glasses, earrings… necklaces, watches, and rings, something like those,' Choi said.
While other companies have tried to create AI products designed to replace your phone, like the Humane AI Pin or the Rabbit R1, that won't be the approach Samsung takes. The company reportedly wants its new wearable devices to be a companion to your phone, rather than a replacement or standalone device.
Got a tip? Talk to us! Email our staff at
Email our staff at news@androidauthority.com . You can stay anonymous or get credit for the info, it's your choice.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
18 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Sify Technologies Ltd (SIFY) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Highlights: Revenue Growth Amidst Financial ...
Revenue: INR10,723 million, an increase of 14% over the same quarter last year. EBITDA: INR2,111 million, an increase of 18% over the same quarter last year. Loss Before Tax: INR322 million. Loss After Tax: INR388 million. Capital Expenditure: INR2,874 million. Network Services Revenue Share: 41% of total revenue. Data Center Colocation Services Revenue Share: 37% of total revenue. Digital IT Services Revenue Share: 22% of total revenue. Data Center Capacity Commissioned: 8.6 megawatts additional capacity. SD-WAN Service Points: 9,473 contracted service points deployed. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 7 Warning Signs with SIFY. Release Date: July 18, 2025 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Positive Points Sify Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:SIFY) reported a 14% increase in revenue for the quarter, reaching INR10,723 million compared to the same quarter last year. EBITDA increased by 18% year-over-year, totaling INR2,111 million, indicating strong operational performance. The company commissioned 8.6 megawatts of additional data center capacity, enhancing its infrastructure capabilities. Sify Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:SIFY) is strategically focusing on long-term value creation through disciplined investment and risk management. The company is capitalizing on India's digital transformation, with significant investments in cloud adoption, AI, and digital infrastructure. Negative Points Sify Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:SIFY) reported a loss before tax of INR322 million and a loss after tax of INR388 million, reflecting financial challenges. Increased depreciation, interest costs, and manpower expenses impacted the company's profitability. The digital IT services segment experienced flat revenue growth and increased operational losses, indicating challenges in this business area. The company's EBITDA margin remains around 20%, with no immediate expansion expected despite the growth in data center operations. The transition to annuity-based revenue in the digital services segment has resulted in slower revenue growth compared to project-based revenues. Q & A Highlights Q: Can you remind us how much data center capacity has been commissioned and what are your expectations for the next 12 months? A: M. P. Vijay Kumar, CFO, stated that two greenfield data center projects in Delhi and Chennai have gone live, each with a design capacity of 26 megawatts. The total operational capacity now stands at 138 megawatts. Two additional data centers in Mumbai, each with a design capacity of 52 megawatts, are under construction and expected to go live later this financial year. Q: Can you explain the pay-per-use colocation AI model and the expected returns? A: Raju Vegesna, CEO, explained that Sify offers a pay-per-use colocation model for GPUs, certified by NVIDIA, at their data centers in Mumbai, Chennai, and Noida. Customers can bring their own GPUs and use Sify's facilities on a per-use basis. This model is unique and has garnered global interest, although specific numbers are not yet available. Q: When might we see more leverage in the business model given the current investments? A: M. P. Vijay Kumar, CFO, indicated that while the network and data center businesses are performing well, the digital IT services segment is still in an investment phase. He expects to see results from these investments in 12 to 18 months, leading to improved leverage. Q: What are the plans for the digital services business given its flat top line and increased losses? A: M. P. Vijay Kumar, CFO, explained that the digital services business is transitioning from project-based to annuity-based revenues, which results in smaller but more consistent income streams. The focus is on building capabilities, with an expected turnaround in 12 to 18 months. Q: Why are EBITDA margins not expanding despite the growth in data centers? A: M. P. Vijay Kumar, CFO, noted that the data center business has high EBITDA margins of about 45%, while the network business is at 18%. The IT services segment is still developing. The company aims for gradual improvement in consolidated margins as the IT services business gains traction. For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. This article first appeared on GuruFocus.
Yahoo
28 minutes ago
- Yahoo
TSMC's Q2 revenue tops $30B, beats expectations
This story was originally published on Manufacturing Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Manufacturing Dive newsletter. Dive Brief: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. saw its second quarter earnings increase, with revenue up 44.4% year over year to an estimated $30.1 billion, the chipmaker announced Thursday. The Q2 revenue boost was due to the 'continued robust' demand for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing-related products, Wendell Huang, SVP and CFO, said in a statement. Looking ahead, TSMC expects revenue to be between $31.8 billion and $33 billion in Q3, driven by strong demand for its chip processing technologies, Huang added. The company also forecast overall 2025 revenue to be up nearly 30%. Dive Insight: Chairman and CEO C.C. Wei provided more details of the company's manufacturing plans in the United States on the earnings call on Thursday. In March, TSMC announced plans to invest an additional $100 billion in the U.S., bringing its total investment to $165 billion. The expansion includes plans for six advanced wafer manufacturing fabs in Arizona. Its fourth facility will use N2 and A16 process technology, and its fifth and sixth facilities will use 'even more advanced technology,' Wei said. 'The construction and ramp schedule for those fabs will be based on our customers' needs,' Wei said. 'Our expansion plan will enable TSMC to scale up to a gigafab cluster in Arizona to support the needs of our leading-edge customers in smartphone, AI and HPC applications.' The investment will also be used to build two advanced packaging facilities and establish a research and development center in Arizona to complete TSMC's AI supply chain, supporting 'strong multiyear demand' from TSMC customers, Wei added. TSMC's first Arizona fab began high-volume production in the last quarter of 2024, using N4 process technology. Construction of its second fab, which will utilize 3-nanometer process technology, is complete. Whereas the construction of its third fabrication facility, which will use 2-nanometer and 16 process technologies, has begun. Once construction is completed, around 30% of TSMC's 2-nanometer and 'more advanced capacity' will be located in Arizona and create a semiconductor manufacturing cluster in the U.S., Wei said. TSMC's Q2 exceeded leadership's expectations. It was previously anticipated to generate revenue between $28.4 billion and $29.2 billion. Despite the revenue hike and positive forecast, the fluctuating foreign exchange rate between the U.S. and the Taiwan dollar could have a 'sizable' impact on the chipmaker's reported revenue and gross profit margin, Huang said on the earnings call. While nearly all of its revenue is in U.S. dollars, about 75% of TSMC's cost of goods is sold in Taiwan dollars. The company also experienced a financial impact of more than 100 basis points from ramping its overseas fabs, mainly due to margin dilution as TSMC's Arizona and Japan fabs started to ramp up, he added. 'Despite the higher cost of overseas fabs, we will leverage our increasing size in Arizona and work on our operations to improve the cost structure,' Huang said. 'We will also continue to work closely with our customers and suppliers to manage the impact.' TSMC has six factors to determine its profitability: leadership technology development and ramp-up, pricing, capacity utilization, cost reduction, technology mix and foreign exchange. The latter of which is out of the company's control, Huang added. 'When the foreign exchange rate is unfavorable as it is currently, we will focus on the fundamentals of our business and lean on the other five factors to manage through it, and we have successfully done in the past,' Huang said. 'Thus, even with the unfavorable foreign exchange rate, we believe a long-term gross margin of 53% and higher remains well achievable.' Going into the second half of the year, TSMC has not seen any changes in its customers' behavior so far, Wei said on the call. Nevertheless, the chipmaker acknowledges the uncertainties and risks associated with the potential impact of tariff policies, particularly on consumer-related and price-sensitive end-market segments. Still, the company believes that this is 'short-term in nature' and continues to anticipate a mild recovery in the non-AI end market in 2025, Wei added. Recommended Reading TSMC, unbothered by tariffs, holds 2025 outlook Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
Sify Technologies Ltd (SIFY) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Highlights: Revenue Growth Amidst Financial ...
Revenue: INR10,723 million, an increase of 14% over the same quarter last year. EBITDA: INR2,111 million, an increase of 18% over the same quarter last year. Loss Before Tax: INR322 million. Loss After Tax: INR388 million. Capital Expenditure: INR2,874 million. Network Services Revenue Share: 41% of total revenue. Data Center Colocation Services Revenue Share: 37% of total revenue. Digital IT Services Revenue Share: 22% of total revenue. Data Center Capacity Commissioned: 8.6 megawatts additional capacity. SD-WAN Service Points: 9,473 contracted service points deployed. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 7 Warning Signs with SIFY. Release Date: July 18, 2025 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Positive Points Sify Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:SIFY) reported a 14% increase in revenue for the quarter, reaching INR10,723 million compared to the same quarter last year. EBITDA increased by 18% year-over-year, totaling INR2,111 million, indicating strong operational performance. The company commissioned 8.6 megawatts of additional data center capacity, enhancing its infrastructure capabilities. Sify Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:SIFY) is strategically focusing on long-term value creation through disciplined investment and risk management. The company is capitalizing on India's digital transformation, with significant investments in cloud adoption, AI, and digital infrastructure. Negative Points Sify Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:SIFY) reported a loss before tax of INR322 million and a loss after tax of INR388 million, reflecting financial challenges. Increased depreciation, interest costs, and manpower expenses impacted the company's profitability. The digital IT services segment experienced flat revenue growth and increased operational losses, indicating challenges in this business area. The company's EBITDA margin remains around 20%, with no immediate expansion expected despite the growth in data center operations. The transition to annuity-based revenue in the digital services segment has resulted in slower revenue growth compared to project-based revenues. Q & A Highlights Q: Can you remind us how much data center capacity has been commissioned and what are your expectations for the next 12 months? A: M. P. Vijay Kumar, CFO, stated that two greenfield data center projects in Delhi and Chennai have gone live, each with a design capacity of 26 megawatts. The total operational capacity now stands at 138 megawatts. Two additional data centers in Mumbai, each with a design capacity of 52 megawatts, are under construction and expected to go live later this financial year. Q: Can you explain the pay-per-use colocation AI model and the expected returns? A: Raju Vegesna, CEO, explained that Sify offers a pay-per-use colocation model for GPUs, certified by NVIDIA, at their data centers in Mumbai, Chennai, and Noida. Customers can bring their own GPUs and use Sify's facilities on a per-use basis. This model is unique and has garnered global interest, although specific numbers are not yet available. Q: When might we see more leverage in the business model given the current investments? A: M. P. Vijay Kumar, CFO, indicated that while the network and data center businesses are performing well, the digital IT services segment is still in an investment phase. He expects to see results from these investments in 12 to 18 months, leading to improved leverage. Q: What are the plans for the digital services business given its flat top line and increased losses? A: M. P. Vijay Kumar, CFO, explained that the digital services business is transitioning from project-based to annuity-based revenues, which results in smaller but more consistent income streams. The focus is on building capabilities, with an expected turnaround in 12 to 18 months. Q: Why are EBITDA margins not expanding despite the growth in data centers? A: M. P. Vijay Kumar, CFO, noted that the data center business has high EBITDA margins of about 45%, while the network business is at 18%. The IT services segment is still developing. The company aims for gradual improvement in consolidated margins as the IT services business gains traction. For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
