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In addition, we achieved many more world firsts, including introduction of the 1.8” SATA
II 64 Gigabyte (GB) Solid State Drive (SSD); development of 30nm-class 64Gb NAND
Flash memory; development of a 65nm digital TV receiver chip; and roll-out of the
FlashON™ Hybrid HDD (hard disk drive). Furthermore, we introduced the world’s fastest
graphics memory—our 6Gb per second, 512 Megabit (Mb) GDDR5 chip—which doubled
the data speed of the previous industry leader, GDDR4.
Unwavering Memory Leadership
In 2007, Samsung Electronics easily held on to its No. 1 position in the memory
industry with 28% overall market share. Our product portfolio included the indus-
try’s most extensive mix of Flash and DRAM chips, designed to power the widest
range of PC, server, graphics, consumer and mobile devices. We also succeeded in
producing the world’s first 60nm-class 1Gb DRAM and 50nm-class 16Gb NAND Flash
memory chips. Beyond these areas of demonstrated success and underscoring our
role as leading market innovator, we remain highly aggressive in pioneering the devel-
opment of new memory markets.
Other stand-out accomplishments in 2007 include becoming the supplier with the
most NAND Flash-based SSD product offerings and the successful addition of another
fusion memory offering—the Flex-OneNANDTM—to our existing portfolio, which also
includes the OneNANDTM and OneDRAMTM. As interest intensifies in memory solutions
that resolve multiple design issues in a single chip, our fusion memory products are
expected to account for an increasingly major part of the Samsung memory business
over the next several years.
60nm-class 2GB DDR2 DRAM
In September 2007, we developed the industry’s first
60nm-class 2GB DDR2 DRAM, improving DRAM perfor-
mance by up to 20%. In addition, this new device will
also deliver twice as much storage capacity over existing
system memory solutions.
128GB SSD
In our quest to provide a better alternative to hard disk
drives in devices such as notebook PCs, we announced
development of a 128GB flash-based SSD in January 2008.
Compared to HDDs, Samsung SSDs are lighter, more durable,
consume less power, make no noise and allow PCs
to start up and load software at higher speeds.
APRIL 30 World’s first 50nm-class 16Gb NAND
Flash memory mass produced We became the first
company to mass produce 16Gb NAND Flash memory
chips—the largest capacity on the market today. This
milestone signals our commitment to minimizing produc-
tion costs while improving performance.
MAY 31 World’s first 2.5-inch 250GB HDD We
launched the world’s first 2.5-inch 250GB HDD.
Optimized for mobile devices, the 250GB HDD produces
85% less noise and consumes 95% less energy com-
pared to our previous HDD. Plus, the 250GB HDD
includes enhanced data stability capabilities.