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Samsung's NAND Makes Prices Drop
Techtree News Staff, May 31, 2005 1351 hrs ISTSamsung has begun mass-producing the 4-Gb NAND flash memory using the 70-nanometer process technology.
Samsung announced that it has begun mass-producing the 4-Gigabit (Gb) NAND flash memory using the 70-nanometer process technology.
Samsung's 4Gb NAND flash memory was first developed in September 2003. The use of 70nm design technology to produce the 4Gb NAND flash enables Samsung to produce a small memory cell size of 0.025um 2 (25/1000 micrometers).
An advanced Argon fluoride photo-lithography light source has been deployed to etch the finer circuitry permitted by the 70nm process.
Samsung's 70nm 4Gb NAND flash writes data at 16-megabytes per second, a 50 percent enhancement over a 90nm 2Gb device, thereby enabling real time data storage of high-definition (HD) video images.
According to market research firm Gartner, 4Gb NAND flash will account for more than 30 percent of total expected sales of $8 billion in NAND flash memory this year.
While IDC another market research firm claims that the lower chip prices could lead to memory cards retailing for about a fifth less at the end of the year compared to what they cost now.
While here memory prices have been declining ever since the budget. The prices of RAM have dropped over Rs1000 in the last four months for a 512 MB, and are declining steadily by around Rs 50 every week.
According to an expert, its highly unlikely that this is caused by Samsung's mass production using the 70 nanometer technology its more because of the acceptance of newer standards here that s making the prices fall.
Samsung's 4Gb NAND flash memory was first developed in September 2003. The use of 70nm design technology to produce the 4Gb NAND flash enables Samsung to produce a small memory cell size of 0.025um 2 (25/1000 micrometers).
An advanced Argon fluoride photo-lithography light source has been deployed to etch the finer circuitry permitted by the 70nm process.
Samsung's 70nm 4Gb NAND flash writes data at 16-megabytes per second, a 50 percent enhancement over a 90nm 2Gb device, thereby enabling real time data storage of high-definition (HD) video images.
According to market research firm Gartner, 4Gb NAND flash will account for more than 30 percent of total expected sales of $8 billion in NAND flash memory this year.
While IDC another market research firm claims that the lower chip prices could lead to memory cards retailing for about a fifth less at the end of the year compared to what they cost now.
While here memory prices have been declining ever since the budget. The prices of RAM have dropped over Rs1000 in the last four months for a 512 MB, and are declining steadily by around Rs 50 every week.
According to an expert, its highly unlikely that this is caused by Samsung's mass production using the 70 nanometer technology its more because of the acceptance of newer standards here that s making the prices fall.
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