Samsung Develops World’s Smallest DRAM Technology

Samsung Develops World’s Smallest DRAM Technology

Samsung Electronics says it has developed a 512-Mb DDR2 SDRAM memory chip with 70-nanometer processing technology - a sort of grand slam in miniaturizing DRAM technology. Samsung Electronics said Thursday it was the first to develop the 100 nm, 90 nm and 80 nm technology, and set another landmark with the development of this new 70 nm process technology.
The new technology will yield at least twice as many chips from a single wafer than the 90 nm processing technology, and chips will work at an energy-saving 1.8 volt. Samsung says it will show the best performance not only in computers but especially in mobile devices, where size matters most. After the 90 nm technology currently in use in mass production and the 80 nm technology, Samsung Electronics will start applying the new 70 nm technology from second half of next year.

The global DRAM market is expected to grow from US$26.5 billion this year to S$37.4 billion by 2009, largely due to the release of next-generation game consoles, third-generation mobile phones and the launch of the new Microsoft operating system Vista.

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