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Samsung on a roll with new flash E-mail
by Stan Beer   
Monday, 11 September 2006
With two important announcements, Samsung has demonstrated in stunning fashion its power in the flash memory market. Firstly, it has unveiled a 32Gbit NAND flash module the size of a thumbnail. Secondly, it has developed a new type of flash technology called PRAM (Phase-change Random Access Memory)  which is claimed to be 30 times as fast as conventional flash.

The 32Gbit flash is Samsung's first memory device produced using a 40 nanometer manufacturing process. The new memory device has been designed for use in high storage portable devices such as MP3 and MPEG4 players and makes possible the development of 64GB memory cards for such devices.

In the other bit of news out of Samsung, believes its new PRAM technology will be a viable competitor to NOR flash over the next decade. Among things PRAM  does not need to erase data before rewriting new data, which contributes to its order of magnitude speed advantage.

In addition, Samsung claims that PRAM will also last more than 10 times longer than conventional flash memory. One of the drawbacks of flash is its limited life span, it's relatively slow speed and the low number of times it can be rewritten. PRAM is designed address all these issues. {moscomment}
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