40-nm Technology Will Available End Of The Year: Samsung

On Wednesday, Samsung announced that it will start selling its DRAM chip by the end of this year which is built with new 40-nm technology, which is anticipated to consume much less power than the current deployed memories chips in PCs.

With the help of this next-generation technology, Samsung is expecting to regain its lead in current economy downturn ever seen. Samsung is moving fast to bring it thinner circuitry memory chips and sustain its lead in this category.

Samsung is also planning to implies its 40-nm technology for the mass production of 2 GB DDR3 memory chips as well as for 4 GB DDR3 memory chips by the end of this year. Manufacturing cost of 40 nm chips are less expensive in compare of DDR2 components so we can expect low cost memory chips in future which are scheduled to ship in 2010.

In compare of 50 nm technology, new design chips consumes 30% less power, which means 'green technology'.
DRAM chips usually deliver system memory for desktops and laptops, as well as can be implemented for mobile device and gaming consoles. Thou Samsung has suffered some financial setbacks as a result of a market glut that has sent prices plummeting and inventories soaring.

In December, Gartner lowered its 2009 estimates for worldwide semiconductor revenue. The analyst firm expects the market to see a 16.3% decline to $219.2 billion. The drop would mark the first time the industry has suffered back-to-back years of declining sales. Last year, revenue fell by 4.4%, according to Gartner.

4 GB DDR3 PC Memory Chips With 50-nm Technology: Samsung

On Thursday, Samsung announced that it has used its 50-nm circuit technology to built the first and only 4-GB DDR3 PC memory chips, which is said that it offers more capacity will requires much less power than currently available DDR3 chips.

Aim of company is to built new green generation PCs with its new technology, which will be utilized in 16-GB dual in-line memory modules or likely to be used in RDIMM for servers; 8 GB unbuffered DIMM for workstation and desktop PCs, as well as for laptop with 8 GB small outline DIMM.

DDR3 is a type of DRAM technology, which comes with a several advantages over previous technology which was DDR2. Most beneficial point of DDR3 is its data transfer rate which is high up to eight times than the previous technology, while power consumption is reduce up to 30% and that makes a big difference, in particular when we all are talking about green technology.

"We have leveraged our strength in innovation to develop the first 4-GB DDR3, in leading the industry to higher DRAM densities," Kevin Lee, VP for technical marketing at Samsung Semiconductor, said in a statement.

Samsung's new technology is capable of operating at 1.35 volts and has a maximum speed of 1.6 Gbps, (for me it is quite high). Samsung is applying its dual-die package technology to its 16-GB modules which can be combined to get one maximum 32-GB dual-die package, which is twice the capacity of products based on the previous highest chip density.

Samaung said that it will imposed its 50 nm technology to all its DRAM products. It is to be noted that, company had already released its 50 nm 2-GB DDR3 DRAM, on other hand Samsung also offers 1-GB DDR3 DRAM.

According to IDC figures, it is said that by 2011, DDR3 is expected to account about 72% of the DDR market, while 29% this year.

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