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To: Ramsey Su who started this subject	10/11/2000 9:11:36 AM
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Samsung to produce 8M SRAM for mobile phones Samsung Electronics said yesterday it will begin mass production this month of new small, low-power memory chips for use in third generation mobile phones. The company will supply cellular phone producers with the 8M SRAM (static random access memory) chips fabricated with a 0.15-micron circuit processing technology. The rollout is some six months ahead of its rivals, the company said. The precision design has boosted productivity by 60 percent compared to conventional 0.2-micron technology, the company said, while it can be used in existing production facilities. Samsung also successfully reduced the chip's size and power consumption while its 8M memory capacity allows for faster data transmission. Samsung said its technology will better meet the requirements of IMT-2000, the third-generation wireless system for multimedia, including text-based data, graphics and moving images. Samsung has been the world's largest supplier of SRAMs for the past five years, with its 1999 sales revenue reaching about $966 million accounting for a 21.7 percent market share. The company expects its SRAM sales will post $1.5 billion this year and $1.8 billion next year with its 2001 global market share reaching 26 percent. In May the company has developed 16M SRAMs, which are a fourth of the size of current SRAMs and can run on 1.8V, the industry's lowest level of power consumption. It also supports 32-bit data line, double the speed of existing products, allowing for a faster Internet connection. The company also plans to begin mass production of the 4M SRAM this year. The demand for low voltage SRAM is expected to post a sharp growth, driven by the proliferation of mobile phones and other portable computing gadgets. It is expected to account for 34 percent of the entire SRAM market in 2001 and 48 percent in 2003. The total SRAM market is estimated to reach around $6.5 billion in 2002. (HJJ) Updated: 10/12/2000 koreaherald.co.kr\|\|2000&path=/news/2000/10/__10/20001012_1019.htm

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