Samsung launched NAND Flash 8GB memory chip

Samsung Electronics yesterday (March 12) said it began selling a new NAND Flash memory chip specifically for mobile phones.

With storage capacity of up to 8GB - equivalent to the capacity to store 2,000 MP3 encoded songs - Samsung claims moviNAND is the largest memory chip embedded today.

MoviNAND is expected to be put into mass production later this year.

Manufacturer said moviNAND can be widely used in mobile phones or handheld devices. By combining flash storage technology, separate firmware control structure and designing MMC, moviNAND, device manufacturers save a lot of time and cost in integrating it into capital products. have.

MMC design also helps speed up data processing exchanges. moviNAND can handle 52MB of data in a second - twice the speed of Samsung's existing 4GB NAND Flash memory chips.

Samsung estimates the world market value of memory chips will reach about $ 4 billion by 2010. NAND Flash memory chips are a compact storage device, fast data processing speed and energy saving. This type of memory chip is currently very widely used in devices such as memory cards, MP3 players .

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