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To: Paul Engel who wrote (117729)	11/14/2000 3:21:46 PM
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Intel Investors - Samsung's DRDRAM shrink - to 0.17 micron process - will help facilitate the Pentium 4 launch. Samsung begins ramp of Rambus DRAMs with 0.17-micron technology By SBN Staff, Semiconductor Business News Nov 14, 2000 (8:33 AM) URL: semibiznews.com SEOUL -- Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today announced it has begun mass production of Rambus DRAMs using a process technology with 0.17-micron design rules. The Korean company said the new technology is being applied to "third-generation" RDRAMs with memory-chip densities of 128, 144, and 288 megabits. In addition to reducing the die size for lower manufacturing costs, the 0.17-micron process will improve speed grades of memories by more than 30%, enabling 1-GHz RDRAMs, according to Samsung. Earlier this year, Samsung announced it was sampling 288-Mbit RDRAMs, based on the new process technology. It also predicted that more than 20% of its DRAM output would be based on the wide-bandwidth memory architecture from Rambus Inc. of Mountain View, Calif. Today, the Korean company said it expects to ship 53% of the world's Rambus DRAMs in 2000. Samsung estimated that its RDRAM revenues will reach $900 million in 2000. The company also predicted that worldwide sales of Rambus DRAMs will grow 132% annually from $1.7 billion in 2000 to around $9.2 billion by 2002. The total DRAM market is expected to reach $31 billion in 2000 and grow to $43 billion by 2002, according to a new forecast released by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). In making today's announcement, Samsung said it expects to see strong demand for Rambus memories as Intel Corp.'s Pentium 4 processors begin to hit the market at the end of November. Last week, Samsung officials in Silicon Valley also said the company anticipates seeing desktop PCs using double data rate (DDR) memories by next spring. Samsung marketing officials said DDR-based PCs will hit the market sooner than expected because of new chip sets and processors coming from Intel's archrival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (see Nov. 10 story). Consequently, Samsung is aggressively pursuing both DDR and Rambus memories--as well as today's mainstream synchronous DRAMs--using the new 0.17-micron process technology.