Samsung builds 16 Gb Flash Memory Chip
Samsung who has the Apple iPod nano deal under its belt and with than 55 percent share in worldwide NAND Flash sales is the undisputed leader of the memory market.
Today Samsung has announced it has built the world’s first 16-gigabit flash memory chip. These flash memory chips, when combined in 16×16 configurations, will allow 32 Giga Byte flash cards.
By using the 50-nanometer manufacturing technology, these new chips are expected to be in production by the second half of 2006.
The cell size of the fingernail-sized flash chip has been reduced about 25 percent from that of the 60 nm 8 Gbit NAND: The new 50 nm flash memory contains cells that measure 0.00625 square microns per bit. The 16 Gbit device holds 16.4 billion functional transistors, Samsung said. ”
Samsung’s announcement about the new flash memory chips will put immense pressure on other flash and hard drives companies to come out with some creative or loose the market share to Samsung.
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