Mar 2, 2007 — Samsung Electronics has begun mass-producing what it calls the industry’s first 1Gigabit DDR2 DRAM chip using 60 nanometer-class process technology. The company says this sets it apart from competitors still using 80-nanometer technology.
Samsung, said to be the word’s largest maker of memory chips, says the new process can increase production efficiency by 40 percent over the 80-nanometer technology that has been deployed in dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip manufacturing since last year. The firm anticipates that improved productivity will cut costs and help 60-nano 1 gigabit DRAM chips become a mainstream item in 2008.
Samsung says the 60nm 1Gb DDR2 DRAM, which it first developed in 2005, is the latest in a long line of Samsung industry “firsts” in nano-scale DRAM advancements. The company expects that the 60-nano DRAM revenue will reach $2.3 billion worldwide this year, and $32 billion by 2009.