Samsung is making 2Gb 30nm modules

KOREAN HARDWARE MANUFACTURER Samsung will begin work on 2Gb Green DDR3 chips using 30nm class technology. Samsung claims it will be the first company working on the technology and should have product availability later this year.

Samsung is building 2Gb Green DDR3 to meet the needs of the data intensive smartphone market, which is leading to massive traffic in datacentres. The 30nm-class DDR3 chip should provide better performance combined with lower power levels in servers optimised for cloud computing and virtualisation. The company also reckons this will bring 20 per cent power savings for most server applications using 30nm DDR3.

Naturally Samsung said it will be best in show, supplying up to 1.866Gbps at 1.35V for server applications. PC memory modules should deliver 2.133Gbps at 1.5V - 3.5 times faster than DDR2 and 1.6 times faster than the currently standard 50nm DDR3.

"We're seeing a sharp rise in demand for DDR3 chips and are meeting that need with the timely introduction of 30nm-class Green DDR3 solutions," said Soo-In Cho, Samsung's president of its memory division in its semiconductor business group.

"Thirty nano-class DDR3 DRAM will deliver the most satisfying user experience possible, offering extremely high performance and reduced power consumption for PC and server applications designed to capitalise on new multi-core processors."

The company also intends to work on 4Gb 30nm class modules by the end of the year, plus a range of RDIMMs, UDIMMs and SoDIMMs.

Samsung has not revealed prices for the 2Gb 30nm modules. µ