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CMP’s Semiconductor Insights Recognizes Samsung’s 51nm 16Gb MLC NAND Flash as Most Innovative NVM
2007 INSIGHT Awards Program Acknowledges Feats in Technology
SAN FRANCISCO - October 9, 2007 - CMP’s Semiconductor Insights (SI), the leader in technical and patent analyses of integrated circuits and electronic systems, today announced that it has awarded Samsung’s 51nm 16Gb MLC NAND Flash the 2007 INSIGHT Award for Most Innovative NVM. The INSIGHT Awards program, produced in conjunction with Semico and EE Times, recognizes corporate and individual achievements in technology.
The INSIGHT Awards honor innovations in eight categories including DRAM, Non-Volatile Memory, RF IC, Baseband and/or Applications Processor, Process Technology, Display Driver and the Dr. Doug Smeaton Innovation Award. SI nominates a majority of the devices, but also considers vendor-submitted nominations. The awards are selected by Semico president Jim Feldhan and EE Times Executive Editor, Patrick Mannion, and they are chaired by Chief Technology Officer, Edward Keyes.
"In its latest 16-Gbit MLC NAND flash device, Samsung has simplified the floor plan and architecture from the previous generation 65nm 8Gbit MLC NAND flash device," stated Young Choi, SI’s Technology Manager - Memory. "There are two row decoder areas, which split the memory array into four 4-Gbit arrays. Page buffers are now all consolidated in one side of the chip, as opposed to having two halves on either side of the memory array in the previous-generation product."
By migrating their production to 5xnm process node, Samsung at 51nm and Toshiba at 56nm, both companies have achieved 40 percent improvement of Mbit/mm2 with only a 20 percent increase in chip size from their previous 8-Gbit designs. Samsung's design appears to have achieved about a 5 percent smaller chip size due to its smaller feature-size advantage over Toshiba.
SI's recent analysis of Samsung's 51nm 16Gb MLC NAND Flash (K9GAG08U0M) revealed twice the capacity of its previous 8Gb 65nm generation with about 20% corresponding increase in die size. "Samsung's 51nm Flash delivers a density-die size rating in excess of 99 Mb/mm^2, making it the most efficient NAND flash design we have analyzed to date," said Choi. "Availability of single-chip 16-Gbit MLC NAND flash memory devices is expected to stimulate the market for applications such as solid-state disk and hybrid hard drive."
About Semiconductor Insights — A Division of UBM
Semiconductor Insights (SI) (www.semiconductor.com) is the leading technical advisor to the world’s microelectronics community. SI supports its clients through the technical investigation of patents, integrated circuits and electronic systems. Its TECHinsights division helps technology companies
benchmark competing devices, improve time to market and solve technical problems while its IPinsights division helps technology companies and legal
professionals evaluate, develop and monetize their intellectual property. Typical clients are major electronics and semiconductor corporations in Japan,
Korea, Taiwan, Europe and North America and the law firms that represent them. SI is a division of UBM (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com).
About CMP
CMP (www.cmp.com) is a media and marketing solutions company serving the technology industry. With the leading online, event and print brands in all technology market categories, and with services and tools that reach beyond traditional advertising, CMP shapes and influences the technology industry worldwide. CMP publishes highly respected media brands such as TechWeb, InformationWeek, ChannelWeb, CRN, EE Times and TechOnline; produces major industry events such as Interop, Web 2.0 Expo, XChange, Game Developer Conference and the Embedded Systems Conferences; and provides business information and marketing services such as the International Customer Management Institute, Semiconductor Insights and Second Life consulting for technology marketers. CMP is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion. For more CMP news, go to cmp.com/news.
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