{"id":548224,"date":"2006-03-13T12:08:47","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T12:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548224-samsung-starts-mass-producing-new-era-memory-chips.html"},"modified":"2006-03-13T12:08:47","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T12:08:47","slug":"samsung-starts-mass-producing-new-era-memory-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548224-samsung-starts-mass-producing-new-era-memory-chips.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung starts mass producing new-era memory chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The world&#8217;s leading memory chip maker said it was the first manufacturer in the industry to begin mass producing DDR2 DRAM 512 Megabit (MB) chips on an 80 nanometer (nm) scale. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">One nanometer is one billionth of a meter or a 100,000th of the width of the hair of an adult. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;With 80-nm process technology, Samsung is able to increase its production efficiency by 50% over the previous 90-nm process,&quot; the company said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;With demand for DDR2 at its highest level since its market debut in 2004, our 80-nm technology provides us with the ability to more efficiently support the sustained demand growth that is expected in the DDR2 marketplace this year,&quot; said Tom Trill, director of DRAM Marketing at Samsung said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">According to Gartner Dataquest, a semiconductor industry research organization, DDR2 memory chips will account for more than 50% of the entire DRAM market in 2006. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><em>Inet-Bridge ||<\/em>\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=39274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><em><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics has said Monday it had started mass producing computer memory chips with the world&#8217;s most up-to-date and cost-efficient micro-processing technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}