The PCs and laptops we use regularly rely on two key components to function: memory and storage. These components come in shapes and sizes, starting from entry-level chips on affordable models all the way to high-frequency variants that cost more. However, even with the top-of-the-line DRAM and Nand flash chip available, processing data at a massive scale isn’t as efficient. To improve this, Samsung Electronics is working on increasing the memory density of its NAND flash chips and DRAM to “extreme levels.”
Samsung To Achieve Industry’s Highest Level Of Memory Density
Per a report published by KED Global, the 11-nanometer DRAM currently under development at Samsung Electronics “will achieve the industry’s highest level of memory density,” as told by the president and head of the company’s Device Solutions division, Lee Jung-bae. Samsung is planning to achieve this by developing 3D-stacked structures. For V-Nand, the company is working to place more cells on a printed circuit with lower height while reducing interference between cells to condense the size.
As and when the company achieves this breakthrough, it will help the computing industry and all the other fields that rely on data processing, as higher memory density chips will be able to store the same amount of information in fewer chips. In other words, achieving higher memory capacities will be easier using the same number of higher-density DRAM chips.
High-Density Chips Will Benefit AI-Driven Technologies And Services
Although regular users won’t need such performance, it would be highly beneficial for AI-driven technologies and businesses that require high-capacity and low-power memory. A quick example of such companies is Open AI, which needs high data-processing power to train its popular chatbot, ChatGPT. By 2025, the company wants to implement high-bandwidth memory (HBM) modules with a capacity of up to 1 terabyte (or 1,000 gigabytes).
Samsung will apply processing-in-memory (PIM) and processing-near-memory (PNM) technologies to HBM chips, improving data calculation capabilities while increasing the chips’ power efficiency. Another huge claim that could revolutionize the industry is about a petabyte solid state drive or a hardware drive with a million gigabytes, which lower energy consumption than traditional drivers.
The company will showcase more details about its latest semiconductor technologies at the Samsung Memory Tech Day 2023 on October 20, 2023.
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