Samsung Electronic develops new high-performance NAND flash memory

09:50, 6 May 2010

SEOUL. May 6. KAZINFORM Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest memory chip manufacturer, said Thursday that it has developed an 8-gigabit (Gb) OneNAND memory chip for smartphones that will go into production this month, addressing the growing demand for more data storage in smartphone devices, Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

The new high-density OneNAND, which uses the advanced 30 nanometer (NM) class process technology, is capable of holding data twice as large as the previous 4-Gb memory chips, and has a processing speed four times faster as well, the company said in a statement.

"We are happy to see that our advanced 30nm-class NAND solution is being widely adopted in smartphones," said Sejin Kim, vice president, Flash memory planning/enabling, Samsung Electronics.

"The availability of an 8Gb OneNAND chip will add considerably to our diverse line-up of advanced mobile memory solutions," Kim added.

The demand for embedded 1-gigabyte (GB) NAND flash memory chips in mobile handsets are forecast to reach 1.1 billion units in 2010 and 2.5 billion units in 2011, Samsung said citing data from market research firm, iSuppli.Smartphone sales worldwide will reach 285 million units in 2010 and increase to 580 million units in 2013, it added, Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.xinhuanet.com

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