Samsung Intros skinny Flash Memory Chip

Posted at November 6th, 2009 under First look, Mobile Companies, Samsung | No Comments »

Samsung disclosed a multi-chip memory package that it claims is the thinnest ever, for smartphones, portable media players, laptops and other mobile electronics. The device is 40% thinner and lighter than a conservative memory package.

The new Samsung chips could find a abode in solid-state drives used as a surrogate for hard disk drives.It is also expected that the devices incorporated with this chipset grew in popularity in corporate data centers and IT computing infrastructure.

The features of memory chip package are as follows,

• The package measures just 0.02 of an inch thick and packs 32 GB of storage.
• The new device features a significantly thinner and the package comprises eight stacked NAND flash chips, built using a 30-nanometer production process.
• The new chipset will double the storage capacity in the same size memory package.
• The chipset provides higher density with multi-functionality in current mobile designs.
• Power usage remains the same.
• Storage space has increased without increasing size and weight means people can store more digital content in their smartphones and other mobile gadgets, making them more useful as computing devices.
• The new Samsung chips could find a place in solid-state drives used as a replacement for hard disk drives.

Samsung is the world’s second largest maker of handsets. Due to gains in its chip business and higher mobile phone sales its earnings were tripled in third quarter from the same period a year.

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