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July 2006
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Samsung’s new flash technology to replace mini drives in some PCs
Samsung, the world’s largest producer of flash memory, announced that it has developed its latest 16-gigabit density NAND memory device. It is double the 8 GB density NAND memory devices manufactured till date by Samsung, Hitachi, Toshiba and others. NAND flash memory, is believed to be better than the reliable NOR Flash due to its higher density. The new small-size yet large capacity is being marketed as a suitable replacement for mini hard drives as well as for the hard drives used in laptops.
The NAND flash memory, generally used in digital cameras, cell phones, USB flash drives and portable music players, has multiple 16 GB flash memory chips. The 16 GB flash chips have been developed by using the 50-nanometer manufacturing process. With the help of this, the mobile and portable application developers can make memory cards with densities up to 32 GB. This will, thereby, enable storage of approximately 8,000 MP3 music files (around 680 hours of songs) on a mobile device or 20 movies (i.e. almost 32 hours of high-resolution video footage).
Samsung has also introduced fusion semiconductors for making subscriber-identity module card applications.
Samsung is aiming to start the mass production of the 16-gigabit NAND flash memory by mid-2006.
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