During the Platform Conference here this week, Samsung Semiconductor Inc. announced it has begun sampling its initial DRAMs, based on the 333- and 400-MHz versions of double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM technology.
In compliance with the new JEDEC DDR-II specifications, Samsung said it has doubled the bandwidth of its DDR SDRAM devices to 400-megabits-per-second (400-Mbps) for main memory and to 700-megabits-per-second (700-Mbps) for graphics memory.
The new DDR SDRAM chips are designed for PC main memory, high-end graphics cards, networking products, and set-top boxes, said Mueez-Ud Deen, director of marketing for DRAM and graphics memory at Samsung Semiconductor, the U.S. chip arm for Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
"We're sampling our DDR333 chips now," Deen said in an interview at the Platform Conference. System manufacturers will begin ramping up the DDR333 devices "in August or September," he said.
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