Samsung Develops Fully Buffered DIMM for Next Generation Servers and Workstations.SEOUL, South Korea -- Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics (SEC, Hangul:삼성전자; KSE: 005930, KSE: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is a South Korean multinational corporation and the world's largest and leading electronics and information technology company. Co. Ltd., the leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced its next generation memory module -- a 1GB Fully Buffered, Dual In-line Memory Module See DIMM. (storage) Dual In-line Memory Module - Small circuit boards carrying memory integrated circuits, with signal and power pins on both sides of the board, in contrast to single-in-line memory modules (SIMM). (FB DIMM (Dual In-Line Memory Module) A printed circuit board that holds memory chips and plugs into a DIMM socket on the motherboard. See memory module. DIMM - Dual In-Line Memory Module ) based on DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory 2 technology. FB DIMM, a new design that resolves the limited memory performance of conventional registered DIMMs, will sharply boost memory density and bandwidth to improve data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a in servers and workstations. "Samsung has been part of an industry-wide effort to address the demand for higher system performance," said Jon Kang, senior vice president, technical marketing, Samsung Semiconductor. "We believe that our FB DIMM solution will be adopted by the rest of the memory market and become the most widely used." "Emerging FB DIMM products, such as this first offering from Samsung, will deliver the high-performance memory required to balance the platform and enable the promise of tomorrow's high-speed server applications," said Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing for Intel's Enterprise Platforms Group. Currently, the memory slot access rate per channel decreases as the memory bus speed increases, resulting in limited density build-up as channel speeds increase. The FB DIMM eliminates this "stub-bus" channel bottleneck by using point-to-point links that enable multiple memory modules to be connected serially to a given channel. A memory buffer chip is added to each module to enable the use of high and low speed interfaces. The buffer can generate speeds of 3.2Gbps to 4.8Gbps, six times that of the DRAM. Samsung will begin mass production of FB DIMMs in the first half of 2005 to meet early market demands for the cutting-edge technology. About Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence In the days of the first computers, transaction and company data were the first types of information digitized. Then came text, opening the world to word processing, followed by audio CDs and finally video. technologies with 2003 parent company sales of US$36.4 billion and net income of US$5.0 billion. Employing approximately 88,000 people in 89 offices in 46 countries, the company consists of six main business units: Corporate Technology Operations, Digital Appliance Any apparatus controlled by a computer. It may refer to an actual household appliance (coffee maker, toaster, etc.) that is computerized, but often refers to a handheld device such as a pager, cellphone or PDA. See Internet appliance. Business, Digital Media Business, LCD Business, Semiconductor Business and Telecommunication Network Business. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is the world's largest producer of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color monitors, color TVs, memory chips, and TFT-LCDs. For more information, visit www.samsung.com. |
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