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Samsung Renews Memory Deal For Xbox
News Samsung Semiconductor plans to announce on Monday that it has renewed its contract with Microsoft to supply memory chips for the company's Xbox game console. Risto Puhakka, an analyst at semiconductor research firm VLSI Research, said that even...
[January 21, 2002, 11:46]
Samsung Bets On Controversial Memory Standard
News Samsung has begun shipping engineering samples of 200MHz double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM memory, or DDR400, in spite of doubts over whether the PC infrastructure industry will ever widely adopt the standard.
[March 19, 2002, 17:22]
Rambus Sues Samsung Over Memory
News Just when you thought the Rambus lawsuits might be coming to a close, the memory designer has decided to take Samsung to court. It also said it has added Samsung as a defendant in a pending case originally filed against other memory manufacturers.
[June 7, 2005, 14:25]
Samsung Claims Memory Chip Speed Breakthrough
News Samsung Electronics claims to have developed a prototype fusion memory chip that can speed data transfers by up to five times. The device could significantly increase speeds in mobile applications, a key target market for Samsung, a company...
[December 14, 2006, 15:23]
Samsung Builds A Better Mobile Memory Chip
News Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it has developed a new mobile memory chip that is thinner and uses less power than previous generations of chips, a development that could affect a wide range of portable consumer electronic devices.
[December 28, 2006, 9:23]
Samsung To Plug In Sony's Memory Stick
News This is potentially a significant win if Memory Stick can get deep enough into Samsung's product line," IDC analyst Bryan Ma said. Samsung was already one of 167 licensees of the Memory Stick, which was introduced in fall 1998.
[August 3, 2001, 9:34]
Samsung, Hyundai, Intel Roll Out Memory
News Electronics giants Hyundai and Samsung are showing off their latest memory products at the Intel Developer Forum in Palm Springs, California this week, including Hyundai's new double data rate (DDR) synchronous DRAM (SDRAM).
[February 15, 2000, 14:13]
Samsung Promotes Flash Drives For PCs
News Flash-memory maker Samsung is trying to drive a new kind of disk for PCs. The move to a flash-based disk comes as Samsung, a leader in the flash memory market, tries to double the density of flash memory year by year while driving down cost and...
[May 24, 2005, 9:35]
Samsung First To Next Generation Memory Chip
News Samsung Electronics has announced it is producing 64Mb chip samples of a new memory technology, PRAM (phase-change RAM). Samsung claims its chip can preserve data for more than two years, even in high temperatures of 85C, and is a thousand times...
[August 23, 2004, 16:35]
Hybrid Drive To Extend Notebook Battery Life
News The trick is that the hard drive contains a 1Gb flash memory chip from Samsung's OneNAND family. Samsung is the world's largest flash memory maker but it plays a somewhat smaller role in hard drives. OneNAND is a relatively new line of chips from...
[April 26, 2005, 12:15]
Samsung Hybrid Hard Drive Extends Laptop Battery Life
News Spinning drives are one of the most power-hungry components in a computer, so allowing it to idle will lead to about an extra half-hour of battery life on a notebook, said Don Barnetson, director of flash memory at Samsung Semiconductor.
[May 16, 2006, 9:35]
Samsung Flash Chip Threatens Hard Drives?
News South Korean-based Samsung said its latest NAND memory device has 16Gb density. That's twice the density of the NAND memory developed last year by Samsung, Toshiba, Hitachi and others. This year, it appears clear that NAND will surpass NOR as the...
[September 13, 2005, 9:30]
Samsung Gets Massive Fine For Price Fixing
News Samsung, the world's biggest memory maker, has agreed to pay $300m (£168m) and plead guilty for conspiring with others to fix prices on Dynamic Random Access Memory, or DRAM, the most common form of memory found in computers.
[October 14, 2005, 9:20]
Samsung Starts Mass Production Of 70nm Flash
News Memory card prices look likely to fall following Samsung's announcement late on Monday that it had begun mass-producing 4Gb NAND Flash memory chips using a 70nm process. Samsung announced back in September that it had created 70nm 4Gb NAND Flash...
[May 31, 2005, 17:50]
Samsung Unveils 32GB Flash Hard Drive
News Samsung is planning to shake up the hard drive market with a 32GB drive that uses NAND flash memory chips rather than magnetic platters. The Samsung parts are guaranteed for 100,000 program/erase cycles, well below that required for heavily used...
[March 22, 2006, 14:05]
Samsung And Seagate Release Hard Drives
News On Tuesday, Samsung announced three hard drives: a 1.8-inch 120GB model, a 3.5-inch 1TB drive and a 2.5-inch, 120GB "hybrid" drive that includes flash memory as well as the traditional spinning platters.
[June 20, 2007, 16:06]
EU Investigates Memory Allegations
News The probe focuses on whether memory manufacturers such as Samsung, Micron and Infineon colluded to drive up prices in late 2001. Subsequently, in a November 26, 2001, email, a Micron manager named Kathy Radford described the efforts of Infineon and...
[March 3, 2004, 7:30]
32GB Solid State Disk Comes To UK Notebooks
News The device is based on 4Gb flash memory chips, and Samsung's manager for flash marketing, Ralf Ebert, said 8Gb chips are now available and should appear in a 64GB SSD in June or July. We double the density [of memory chips] year-on-year," he added...
[May 22, 2007, 18:18]
Micron Shows First DDR-II Memory Demo
News Micron was not the first company to produce DDR-II memory -- Samsung said at the end of May that it had produced 512Mb DDR-II SDRAM modules, and expects to be in volume production of the new 512Mb DDR-II SDRAM device in late 2003.
[July 11, 2002, 15:44]
Samsung Developing 2cm Hard Drives
News Samsung and Toshiba are rather unusual players in the hard drive market because they also make flash memory. Samsung is joining the ranks of companies making tiny hard drives, with a device under development that will have a disk that measures just...
[September 30, 2004, 11:05]
