Samsung Memory Chips Offer New 40nm Technology

By: Kara Gilmour
Staff Writer
Published: Mar 20, 2009

Samsung has developed its first 40 nanometer DRAM memory chip which consumes 30 percent less power than its current 50nm modules. While the company is paving the way for the new technology, it could be offering DDR4 components sooner than analysts expected.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd has developed its first 40 nanometer DRAM memory chip which consumes 30 percent less power than its current 50nm modules. While the company is paving the way for the new memory technology, it could be offering DDR4 components sooner than analysts expected. The new modules will be available later this year.

"Securing extremely advanced technology and system/platform validated operability underscores our commitment as technology leader to deploying the most efficient means of producing DRAM in the marketplace," vice president Kevin Lee, technical marketing at Samsung, said in a statement.

Samsung memory chips for PCs and devices offer new 40nm technology and use 30 percent less power.

DRAM memory modules can run cooler at lower nanometers, but this technology is recently new. While the 40nm DRAM module uses 30 percent less power, it can also drive further reductions in voltage against its current 50-nm class chip. The power savings are totally remarkable and does pave the way to develop the first DDR4 memory component.

The 40 nanometer module is a 1 GB (gigabyte) memory component and can be used in a 1 GB 800 Mb/s DDR2 module for notebooks. It already has Intel's GM45 chipset validation and the technology company is already developing a 2 GB version.

Technology today is defiantly about the era of power consumption. Even the new processors made by Intel and AMD are seeking lower nanometers to help reduce power consumption and heat. A lower nanometer component doesn't require as many heat recommendations such as cooling paste and heat sinks like their predecessors do.

The memory modules can also provide mobile phones with longer battery life.

For example, mobile cell phones now are using processors that offer lower power consumption to save battery time. Mobile processors are more advanced and offer insights to how well a chip can perform without any cooling accessories.

Experts say that technology advances every 7 seconds. There is probably some engineer already testing a 20nm DDR4 memory component. Chances are, they are probably working at Samsung.