14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung Electronics announced that its OneNAND flash memory will be supported by new QUALCOMM Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipsets. Currently available on a few number of MSM chipsets, support for OneNAND flash will be extended to a much wider range of upcoming multimedia-rich products that are being optimized to take full advantage of OneNAND's high performance.
"OneNAND's performance coupled with the versatility of QUALCOMM's chipsets will help drive exciting new handset designs and applications," said Mike Concannon, vice president of strategic products for QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies. "We are pleased to be working with Samsung in helping to drive commercialization of the most compelling 3G multimedia capabilities."
The fast read/write speeds delivered by OneNAND will complement the performance needs of multimedia-rich MSM chipsets, especially those for 3G phones and for new services from carriers. As the industry quickly moves to 3G-based content-centric services, the 17MB/s write speed of OneNAND can support guaranteed continuously-streaming air downloads beyond the HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) specification.
"Samsung welcomes QUALCOMM's support for OneNAND, the industry's most popular fusion memory. OneNAND offers best-in-class performance for truly multimedia-rich, over-the-air experiences at high bandwidths," said Jon Kang, senior vice president, technical marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
The fast performance of OneNAND makes it well-suited not only for multimedia handset applications, but also for use as a non-volatile buffer in hybrid hard disks, and for other data computing applications. OneNAND memory is now available with up to 2Gb capacity using 60nm production technology and will be expanded to 4Gb at 50nm in 2007.