SAMSUNG Electronics Goes into Mass Production

SAMSUNG Electronics Goes into Mass Production

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it has begun mass producing 256Mb XDR ™ (for “eXtreme Data Rate”) DRAM, a next-generation memory device for multimedia applications. The new memory targets applications that require the ability to process high-quality video, such as the latest game consoles, digital TVs, servers and workstations.

The Samsung 256Mb XDR â„¢ has an Octal Data Rate process that transfer s data at eight bits per clock cycle, while cranking up the transfer speed to an industry-leading eight Gigabytes per second. That speed is ten times faster than DDR 400 memory and five times faster than RDRAM â„¢ (PC800). To transfer data in a stable manner at the extremely high speeds, Samsung is using Differential Rambus Signal Level (DRSL) technology.

“XDR â„¢ technology has tremendous potential to become a leading memory solution for today’s highest-performance multimedia applications and we’re quite enthusiastic about its prospects,” said Mueez Deen, marketing director, graphics memory, Samsung Semiconductor.

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