For what it's worth: "Samsung Unveils Neo Memory Chip Growth Theory"
By Kim Sung-jin
Staff Reporter
Samsung Electronics has developed a neo memory semiconductor growth theory, saying that there would be a point of inflection in the semiconductor industry's growth curve in 2005 due to the rapid surge in memory consumption.
Samsung Electronics memory division CEO Hwang Chang-kyu introduced the company's new theory on the growth of the memory chip sector in his keynote speech at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) held in San Francisco on Feb. 5.
``In line with the advent of the information technology era, a new growth pattern is expected in the memory semiconductor sector. There is a possibility that a totally different rapid growth trend will appear as 2005 will be the point of inflection of the memory chip growth curve,'' he said.
Hwang pointed out that as most home appliances and major electronic devices digitalize, memory chip demand will soar by some time around 2005.
``The mainstream memory storage medium has changed from audio tape recorder and magnetic tapes for video tape recorders to current compact discs and digital versatile discs. Memory cards will replace those mediums by 2005 and will be used in all digital appliances such as digital cameras and MP3s, and users will be able to record large-sized audio visual images into their some 5-gigabyte memory cards,'' said Hwang.
He backed up his company's theory by presenting a technical analysis.
According to the analysis, the motion frequency will grow nearly four-fold from the current 400 megahertz to 1.5 gigahertz by 2010 and the gap between the central processing unit (CPU) will be narrowed. He added that data storage density will grow by 80 times and data transmission speed will grow 10-fold.
Hwang also forecast that the mainstream memory chip would be transformed in three phases. From the current universal standard memory, for which one memory chip such as synchronous DRAM is commonly used in PCs or servers, the mainstream will shift to system solution memory that optimizes diverse memory chips to be used in each different system by 2005.
After that, there will come a fusion memory era where an integrated form of memory chip that includes all merits of current diverse types of memory chips such as flash memory, DRAM (dynamic random access memory) and SRAM (static random access memory) as well as non-memory chips will be applied to all digital electronic devices.
The electronics giant said that with the advent of a new memory chip growth era, chip sales would rapidly increase by 20 percent annually.
Hwang received the prestigious IEEE Fellows membership certificate from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
sjkim@koreatimes.co.kr
2002/02/06 16:57
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