Samsung has just announced its successful completion of customer evaluations for 2GB DDR3 DRAM using 30nm process technology. Being the first one in the industry to produce 30nm-class DRAM that's billed as the "most advanced low-power DDR3 available", Samsung is rightly proud. Samsung's president of the Memory Division, Soo-In Cho, was quoted as saying, "Our accelerated development of next generation 30nm-class DRAM should keep us in the most competitive position in the memory market." And I'm sure the likes of Kingston and Corsair are watching closely.
According to Samsung, their 30nm-class DDR3 DRAM reduces power consumption by up to 30 percent over 50nm-class DRAM, and a 4GB module used in a new-generation notebook will consume only three watts per hour, which is just three percent of the total power usage of a notebook. As such, this is the perfect companion to Intel's new low-power Atom processors, so expect these to find their way in new netbooks some time in the near future. That would be around the second half of 2010, when Samsung starts 30nm DDR3 mass production.
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Samsung successfully develops world's first DDR3 DRAM with 30nm process technology
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