Last week, Samsung started mass producing 3D Vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory and at the Flash Memory Summit 2013, Samsung announced the world’s first SSD meant for enterprise based on 3D V-NAND technology. The use of 3D V-NAND enables Samsung to go beyond the 10nm process class and offer a performance improvement of about 20 […]
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Samsung starts mass production of 3D Vertical NAND Flash
UPDATE: You can now find the presentation deck (PDF) of Samsung explaining 3D V-NAND at the Flash Memory Summit. Click here Samsung has announced the mass production of the industry’s first 3D Vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory. Today’s flash memory manufacturing process technology has reached to 10nm-class and given the flash memory based on planar […]
Samsung mass produces fastest eMMC 5.0 for mobile devices
Samsung last week announced the mass production of the world’s fastest embedded memory and the industry’s first eMMC 5.0 in capacities of 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. Samsung says the new eMMC will be used for next-generation smartphones and tablets and boasts an interface speed of 400MB/s that offers 10X speed improvement compared to a Class […]
Samsung now produces 3GB LPDDR3 RAM for smartphones
Samsung has announced that they’ve started producing 3GB LPDDR3 mobile DRAM for smartphones. This is industry’s first 3GB DRAM for mobile devices and could be a part of the upcoming Galaxy flagship device (Galaxy Note III?). Samsung uses six 20nm class 4Gb LPDDR3 chips with the single package measuring only 0.8mm high, freeing up space […]
Samsung announces new Exynos 5 Octa (5420) with faster CPU, new GPU
Samsung teased a new Exynos 5 Octa processor last week and today they have officially announced the evolved Exynos 5 Octa. The new Exynos 5420 now boasts quad-core Cortex-A15 chips clocked at 1.8GHz and Cortex-A7 at 1.3GHz, representing a performance boost of 20 percent from the previous Exynos 5 Octa chip that used A15 at […]