Samsung announces thinner memory chip

Thinner, more power, less drain on a handset-no, it’s not a supermodel whose New Year’ resolution is giving up mobile communications. It’s a new mobile memory chip produced by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
The South Korean conglomerate announced today that its new, 1 gigabyte, mobile DRAM chip is 20 percent thinner and uses 30 percent less power than its predecessors. The company said the chip would be available in the second quarter of 2007 for mobile handsets as well as digital cameras, portable media players and handheld games.
Samsung may be its own best customer; it is the leading memory chip vendor and it makes a range of consumer electronics that can use the new chip. And its customers typically need smaller, more powerful and efficient chips for packing more features into the handset without hogging battery life.