14 DAY TRIAL // South Korean vendor Samsung Electronics has just announced the availability of a high-performance 64-gigabyte (GB) embedded memory with 64Gb NAND, suitable for mobile devices like smartphones
, tablet PCs, and more.
The new 64GB embedded multimedia card (e-MMC) will provide users with the highest performance available today in such a product.
At the same time, the new e-MMC features the thinnest profile in the industry and is based on Samsung’s leading-edge 64-gigabit (Gb) NAND with a toggle DDR 2.0 interface. The memory is manufactured using the company's 20 nanometer (nm) class process technology.
“By starting production of the 64Gb-based 64GB e-MMC solution this year, we are accelerating the pace of adoption of premium embedded memory cards,” said Myung Ho Kim, vice president, memory marketing, Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics.
“As the memory technology leader, we will keep providing high-performance e-MMC products on an aggressive release schedule to meet the needs of leading mobile device providers for advanced mobile memory solutions.”
The 64GB e-MMC was manufactured to fit high-end mobile devices, and comes in an extremely thin, eight-die stack, Samsung announced.
The new component can processes random write commands at 400 input/output operations per second (IOPS), which means that it is about four times faster than other e-MMC solutions (made with 30nm-class NAND flash memory chip).
The new product offers read speeds of up to 80 megabytes per second (MB/s), along with sequential write speeds of 40MB/s, which marks an over three times improvement when compared to high-end external mobile memory cards available today.
The new 64GB e-MMC can offer support for up to 16,000 MP3 files, the company notes, adding that the component is only 1.4mm thin, and weighs in at 0.6 grams.
“Samsung provided its first 64GB e-MMC in January of 2010 using 30nm-class 32Gb NAND flash components, and late last year started producing 64GB eMMC with 20nm-class 32Gb NAND flash,” the company explained.
“The new eMMC utilizes the latest 20nm-class 64Gb NAND flash, which provides a 60 percent gain in productivity.”