Posted in Software on 11/01/2007 05:51 pm by pratanu banerjee
Samsung Electronics of South Korea declared on Tuesday that it has developed the world's most powerful memory chip. This could help create a memory card of 80 DVD movies! Just imagine! The company declared that it had developed a 64-gigabit NAND flash memory product. It called this as a major leap forward in flash storage. To make a 128 gigabyte memory card, we need 16 chips. The capacity of this is to store 80 DVD movies or it can store 32,000 mp3 files!! The production of such a memory chip would start in 2009. Samsung claimed that their new product would create a 20 billion dollar market until 2011 by offering fresh applications for various mobile handsets, digital cameras and mp3 players. The conventional memory chips used for personal computers are DRAM i.e. dynamic random access memory. Flash memory can retain and store information when the power of the device is turned off!
Samsung, the world’s largest maker of computer memory chips, unveiled a 64-gigabit NAND flash memory chip based on finer process technology using 30-nanometer circuit elements. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter.
Currently, the bulk of Samsung’s flash memory chips are produced using 50-nanometer process technology, she said.
The company, based in Suwon, South Korea, recorded a net profit of 2.19 trillion won (US$2.4 billion; 1.7 billion euro) in the third quarter of this year, a gain of 1 percent from the same period last year.
The company recorded record sales of 16.68 trillion won (US$18.28 billion; 12.9 billion euro), up 9.6 percent from the third quarter in 2006.
