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Samsung products in gaming devices: Memory, logic, displays, storage
As component technology from leaders like Samsung continually gets better, the gaming industry has been a key beneficiary. Whether in game consoles, PC-based video games or handheld gaming devices, Samsung components are helping this market grow rapidly as users enjoy ever-higher-quality images and increasing performance.
Samsung Product Lines for Gaming Devices

Mobile processor – CPU
Graphics DRAM – frame buffer; graphics acceleration
XDR RDRAM – memory
Mobile DRAM – memory
NAND flash – memory; storage
MCP – memory; buffer; removable storage; boot-up
ASIC – controllers
HDD – storage
ODD – storage
LCD – displays
Display Driver ICs – display controllers

Samsung gaming devices-related product literature:
Mobile Processors
Memory
ASIC
Storage

Samsung Gaming Device Components Selection Chart

  Component

  Samsung Products

  Features

Mobile processor

ARM-based mobile SOCs

Speeds: 400-667Mbps

Graphics DRAM

GDDR4

Density: 512Mb

Speeds: 1100-1600MHz

GDDR3

Densities: 256-512Mb

Speeds: 700-1000MHz

GDDR2

Densities 256-512Mb

Speeds: 350-500MHz

GDDR1

Densities 128-256Mb

Speeds: 200-250MHz

RDRAM

XDR RDRAM

Densities: 256-512Mb

Speeds: 2.4-4Gbps

NAND Flash

Discrete Components

Densities: SLC: 256Mb-32Gb

MLC: 8-64Gb

OneNAND Flash fusion memory

Densities: 256Mb-4Gb

MMC cards – MMCplus, MMCmobile, MMCmicro, SecureMMC

Densities: 64MB-2GB

MCP

Multi-Chip Packages

4-16 die per package

Memories: NOR, NAND, OneNAND, mobile DRAM
ASIC

Custom ASIC solutions

Contact Samsung

Samsung foundry

Email foundry@ssi.samsung.com

HDD

Hard disk drives

3.5": 40-500GB capacity
2.5": 40-250GB capacity
1.8": 20-60GB capacity

ODD

CD/DVD-ROM; CD/DVD Writer

Up to 8.5GB

Interfaces: SATA, EIDE, ATAPI

LCD

 

Console LCD panels

Standard: 15”, 17”, 19”, 20.1”, 21.3”

Widescreen: 19”, 22”, 24”, 27”, 30”

Mobile LCD panels

Resolutions: 128x128 to 480x272

Sizes: 1.2-7 inches
Display driver ICs

Panel DDI

Resolutions: XGA, SXGA, SXGA-Plus, UXGA, WUXGA

Mobile DDI

Interfaces: CPU, RGB, VSYNCH