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To: unclewest who wrote (15626)	2/16/1999 2:31:00 AM
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asiabiztech.com February 16, 1999 (HONG KONG) -- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. of Korea completed development of a 128Mb double-data-rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR SDRAM) device. It is a second-generation enhancement to the 128Mb PC100 SDRAM introduced by Samsung in 1998. Samsung said this new product shows its belief that support of existing synchronous DRAM product lines can continue, providing customers with evolutionary solutions while introducing new DRAM technologies like Rambus DRAM devices. In June 1998, Samsung Electronics became the first in the industry to come out with a 64Mb DDR SDRAM and samples were shipped to the world's major computer manufacturers. New products using DDR SDRAMs are currently under development. With the new 128Mb DDR device, the company has gained a technological and time-to-market advantage in both Rambus, DRAMs and Synchronous DRAM offerings. Samsung's 128Mb DDR chip processes data at 266MHz. Power consumption is only about 0.5W (active). This is especially helpful in systems using many DRAMs because total power consumption and heat can present significant design challenges both for the system designer as well as the chip designer. The 128Mb DDR SDRAM operates using a memory bus clock of 100MHz or 133MHz, the same speeds as PC100 and PC133 SDRAMs. This is significant to the system designer in that common motherboard infrastructure components can be used. Additionally, its one-chip DDR/SDR design allows the new product to support both PC100 and the new PC133 standard single-data-rate SDRAMs as a fabrication manufacturing option for maximum flexibility. Samsung plans to begin mass producing the 128Mb DDR SDRAM version along with the 64Mb version in the second half of 1999. (Keith Chan, Asia BizTech Hong Kong Editor)