Samsung has become the first company to begin mass producing 16 gigabit NAND flash. A leader in advanced semiconductor technology, Samsung announced that the company has become the first company to begin mass production of 16 Gb NAND flash, the highest capacity memory chip now available in the market. Samsung will fabricate the devices in 51 nanometers, the finest technology, which is used in memory mass production.
Samsung’s 16Gb chip has multi-level cell (MLC) structure, which expands memory capacity by offering 16 gigabytes of memory in a single memory card. Even the company has accelerated the reading and writing speed of chip by approximately 80 percent over current MLC data processing speeds. Samsung will offer an optimised suite of Flash software and firmware-incorporated storage devices for music phones and MP3 players to support 4Kb pages. The company will also provide a multi-plane performance optimization feature for improved reliability. Samsung can produce 60 percent more efficient chips through 51nm NAND flash chips than those produced with 60nm process technology.
The 51 nm 16Gb version can process data in 4KB pages, while the 60nm NAND flash memory can process data in 2KB page size. Samsung’s 51 nm 16 Gb version also maintains the same bit error-correcting code (ECC), which allows users to use existing system interfaces with only minor firmware upgrades.
According to Jim Elliott, director, flash marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, the company has applied the finest process technology, a ‘half generation’ to minimize the production costs and improve performance.
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Via: Cellular News
