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Samsung starts up 40nm process

Four times faster NAND
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 11:15

SAMSUNG HAS PRESSED THE BIG GREEN BUTTON on its 40nm production facility today and hopes to have its 8Gb Flex-One NAND fusion memory chips used in smartphones immediately, and in other devices including HDTVs by year end.

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The new process incorporates SLC and MLC NAND on a single piece of silicon and, according to Samsung, will increase productivity by up to 180 per cent compared to its previous 60nm wafers.

The Korean company says that the new chips will offer up to a four times greater read speed than regular MLC NAND and improve performance by diminishing transmission noise.

Samsung has included software to support a system level interface for embedded memory in the new chips which allows device designers to easily introduce high-density embedded memory in their next generation phones, eliminating the need to source additional software.

As embedded memory drops in price and increases in speed, more high-end phones are expected to be sold with as much as 32GB of memory built in. µ

 

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How is that?

"The new process incorporates SLC and MLC NAND on a single piece of silicon"

Meaning ?

posted by : East17, 10 March 2009 Complain about this comment
What's the point

I had lots of phones with lots of memory, they've all told me that they're full and I need to delete some SMSs before I can receive more. 200 SMS x 160 bytes, my, that must be just over the 2 gigabytess of memory in my phone. Didn't know my math was this poor but if the machine says so it must be true.

posted by : b, 10 March 2009 Complain about this comment
@ b

200 sms x 160 bytes = 32000 bytes
32 000 bytes/1024 = 31.25 kilobytes = 0.03 megabytes = 0.0003 gigabytes ...
Conclusion:
Your phone is SOOoooo dump :)
It can't even do the math :)))

posted by : c, 10 March 2009 Complain about this comment
@b,c

Stores sms on the sim card?

posted by : @c, 10 March 2009 Complain about this comment
@@c

OMG, I bet he is! That means this "b" guy is sooo noob! LOL.
Or maybe he forgot to count his 500 song on his phone. Dumb to say the least.

posted by : d, 11 March 2009 Complain about this comment
but...

I had a N95 8gb built in memory.
Everything is great until you need to backup the thing.
Memory is nonremovable...
Speed is Limited to about 700kb/sec for reads.hours to back the thing up.

What happens when if the phone dies, and you don't have any backup done, you can't remove and mount the card anywhere else

posted by : bangers``, 11 March 2009 Complain about this comment
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