Samsung vs. Intel Storage / Samsung Posted by zmcnulty on Sep 20, 2004 - 06:50 PM |
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Samsung has announced the world's first 60nm memory, which is apparently "a year ahead" of the rest of the industry. Samsung Electronics of Korea announced on the 20th that they have developed memory using an ulta-micro manufacturing technology - the world's first 60nm (1 nm = .00000001m) process. The company is about a year ahead compared with competitors. Also, Samsung announced that they expect to surpass Intel as the world's largest semiconductor maker within the next few years. President of Samsung Semiconductor Synthesis, Jangyu Fan, explained the company's semiconductor market strategy at a meeting in Seoul on the 20th. Mr. Fan announced that with as practical implementation of this processing, the company has also developed an 8Gb NAND flash memory. He stressed that this was the fifth year of the company doubling semiconductor memory capacity on a yearly basis. Inspired by: http://it.nikkei.co.jp/it/news/index.cfm?i=2004092005845j0 [1] |
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This article is from TechJapan http://www.techjapan.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.techjapan.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=517 Links in this article [1] http://it.nikkei.co.jp/it/news/index.cfm?i=2004092005845j0 |