memory
Another NAND victory
At a time of exploding demand for flash memory, Samsung has manufactured the world’s first 64 Gigabit (Gb) multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory chip using 30-nanometer (nm)-class process technology. Sixteen 64Gb flash devices can be combined to make a 128 Gigabyte (GB) memory card; that’s the equivalent of 80 DVD-resolution movies or 32,000 MP3 music files! This is the eighth consecutive year that memory density has doubled and the seventh year that the nanometer scale has improved for NAND flash. Samsung used a new manufacturing process called self-aligned double patterning technology (SaDPT) to manufacture the chip—a pivotal advance that resolves a critical bottleneck to sub-30nm circuitry by utilizing conventional photolithography equipment. Samsung expects to begin production of 30nm-class 64Gb flash devices in 2009, and according to Gartner Dataquest, accumulated sales for 64Gb NAND flash and higher density devices could reach up to $20 billion by 2011.

awards
Samsung wins 34 CES Awards
When it comes to industry accolades, few are as meaningful to consumers and retailers than the annual awards from the International Consumer Electronics Show, which opens in Las Vegas January 7-10, 2008. CES Innovations Awards are judged by teams of three (an independent industrial designer, an independent engineer, and a member of the trade press) on behalf of The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), and are widely covered in the media. This year’s awards (which were announced November 14) brought special recognition to Samsung, giving first place honors to twelve design and engineering innovations, including four TVs, an MP3 player, a home theater system, a camcorder, and a combination HD disc player, and 22 honorable mentions for printers, monitors, mobile phones, an ultra mobile PC, solid-state drive, and a digital camera. Two products received coveted Best of Innovations 2008 accolades: a Bluetooth speaker system that automatically detects and connects Bluetooth-enabled MP3 players and mobile phones, and UbiCell, the world’s first home use mobile base station to provide secure, indoor wireless service over existing broadband networks. Samsung is proud of its 2008 CES Innovations Awards.

innovation
Breakthroughs in display technology
Imagine a 40-inch diagonal HD LCD TV panel just 10 mm thick. That’s just one of the LCD innovations Samsung announced at the FPD International 2007 recently held in Yokohama, Japan. Breaking the thickness barrier with displays that have bezels about the same size as a desktop LCD, Samsung announced new monitors that use LEDs to create 92 percent of the NTSC standard for color saturation with low power
consumption. Samsung also unveiled new premium laptop LCDs with a 16:9 aspect ratio
in up to an 18.4-inch screen size—perfect for movies—as well as a 15.4-inch LCD with
an active, white LED backlight. Other innovations include embedded touch screen LCDs; a 46-inch information display bright enough for outdoor use; and next-generation monitors including a 14.3-inch plastic
display, 8.1-inch e-paper, and a 14.1-inch active-matrix OLED.

shipbuilding
Samsung builds
first new drill ship
since 2000
The drill ship has emerged as a new growth engine for the shipbuilding industry, and Samsung Heavy Industries is leading the way with the world’s first new drill ship since 2000,
the Stena DrillMax, built for Swedish drilling company,
Stena Drilling. A drilling facility in the form of a ship, the DrillMax is a high-tech, high value-added facility capable of drilling for crude oil and gas as deep as
11 kilometers into the sea. (Mt. Everest is just 8,848 meters). In a first, SHI handled the entire production process, including basic design, materials purchasing, the manufacture of drilling equipment, installation and pilot operation in the Geoje shipyard.