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  Samsung has got the approval from the Korean government to setup a NAND flash memory plant in China. The decision came after the Ministry of Knowledge Economy held two meetings to evaluate the company’s technology plans, possible technological leaks and the impact on South Korean economy since Samsung contributes a decent chunk of exports. [...]

  In an industry where memory chip manufacturers are cutting down on production and expansion due to the reduction in demand, Samsung is doing quite the opposite. Samsung has announced to start operations of its 16th production line, which is touted to be the world’s largest memory chip production line. Samsung had started construction of [...]

  Samsung today announced that they’ve created the industry’s first 64Gb NAND Flash chip using the 20nm fabrication process and Toggle DDR 2.0 interface. Samsung says the new chip will suffice the high-performance requirement of upcoming smartphones, tablets and SSDs. The 64Gb MLC chip can transmit data at up to 400Mb (megabits) per second, which [...]

  Samsung and Toshiba have agreed to develop a high-performance NAND flash memory that will use toggle DDR 2.0 specification with 400Mbps interface. The new NAND memory is said to be beneficial to NAND-based consumer electronics goods and both Samsung as well as Toshiba will support it to allow broad-scale adoption amongst NAND vendors and [...]

  Samsung has announced the industry’s first 20nm-based NAND flash chips aimed to use in SD memory cards and embedded memory solutions. Samsung says memory cards based on this process tech give faster write and read speeds. Samsung had created 30nm-based NAND flash a year before and today these 20nm MLC NAND touts to give [...]

  Yesterday, a semiconductor plant of Samsung Electronics in Giheung, Gyeonggi Province suffered a blackout for few hours that eventually pushed up the NAND flash chip price. The sudden power cut happened around 2:30pm at plant’s K2 and K5 section and though the blackout lasted couple of hours, it drove the daily average spot price [...]

  In addition to 3-bit MLC NAND chips, Samsung also started mass producing 32Gb MLC NAND memory supporting asynchronous DDR interface and have already shipped the first batch to major OEMs. NAND flash is used in SSDs, SD cards, PMPs etc. and with the adoption of asynchronous DDR NAND, it can greatly improve the performance, [...]

  Samsung Electronics is currently the world’s largest memory chipmaker and it will strive to widen the gap, according to Korea Times. By next year, Samsung will look to increase its global market share of DRAM chips to up to 45 percent from the previously forecasted 36 percent. Additionally, Samsung also plans to achieve the [...]

  Samsung has developed the world’s thinnest multi-die memory package that is just 0.6mm thick and packs a whopping 32GB of storage. The new memory package is 40 percent thinner and lighter compared to the conventional memory packages stacked with eight chips. The ultra-thin package consists of eight dies (chips) of 4GB NAND flash that [...]

  Samsung and SanDisk have announced their renewal of NAND flash memory license agreement. Though both the companies haven’t revealed the intrinsic agreement details, Samsung will have an upper hand as they’ll pay half the royalty amount that they pay currently. Samsung is the largest NAND flash memory maker and pays almost $350 million in [...]