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 […]
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30nm Asynchronous DDR NAND flash enters mass production
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 plans to snag up to 45% of DRAM and NAND flash market by 2010
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 creates a 0.6mm thick 32GB memory chip
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, SanDisk renew chip licensing agreement
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 […]