14 DAY TRIAL // The continuous trend in the mobile phone market towards the use of powerful devices, called smartphones, drives the industry players towards developing handsets and phone parts that can provide phone users with about the same performance as computer parts can offer, and such an example comes today from the mobile DRAM area.
South Korean chip manufacturer Hynix Semiconductor, Inc. announced on Monday the development of the first mobile 1Gb DDR2 DRAM chip in the world, made using the 54nm fabrication process. According to the company, the successful development of the chip under this process technology offered it the chance to overcome the challenge of manufacturing mobile DRAMs that could both provide higher speeds and boost lower power consumption characteristics.
The chip maker also states that its One Chip Solution design can provide customers with flexible choices of 2-bit or 4-bit prefetch, as well as with 16 or 32-bit I/O on a single chip. At the same time, the company also describes the mobile DDR2 chip as being an eco-friendly device, due to the fact that it only uses 50 percent of the energy previous-generation mobile DDRs use.
The new 1Gb DDR2 DRAM chip coming from Hynix is just another product that will offer the base for taking the mobile experience to new heights, as soon as it becomes available in future smartphones. The chip maker announced that mass production of the chip was expected to kick off in the second half of 2009, so as to meet increasing demand for mobile applications that offer high performance.
As many of you might already know, the mobile phone industry has made a lot of advancements lately, and there are several operating systems already available on the market, which offer users a lot of features and functionality, yet they also need devices able to deliver the amount of performance necessary to run them, and some mobile platforms recently released into the wild, including the Snapdragon, have all it takes for that.