Samsung zNAND-O Wants to Run LLMs on Your Laptop — But Edge-AI Storage Has a Long Way to Go

At the Global Storage Innovation Forum in Shenzhen, Samsung stacked the compact 256 TB BM1773 QLC SSD, the PCIe 6.0 PM1763, the industry’s first 400-plus-layer V10 NAND, and the TSV-stacked zNAND-O on one stage. The datacenter hardware is real; the on-device AI promise is still a concept looking for an ecosystem.

Samsung Galaxy SmartTag 3 Review: Smaller and Longer-Lasting, but the Walled Garden Is Thicker

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The Galaxy SmartTag 3 is 35% smaller with 550-day battery and basic iPhone Find My support. But Channel Sounding locks to four 2026 Samsung flagships, non-Samsung Android phones cannot pair at all, iPhone users get a crippled version, and Samsung itself warns of pet-swallowing risk.

Samsung Ballie: The End of a Five-Year “Vaporware” Saga

Samsung AI Companion Robot Ballie

With its minimalist spherical design and a combination of a mobile chassis, projector, and multiple sensors, it was once hailed as the “ultimate form of home service robots,” raising hopes among countless users that it would replace traditional smart home systems and deliver fully automated domestic services.