Elpida 70nm IC: The Birth of a New King?
What should we expect from these new chips? :eek:
From DailyTech:
''Elpida Memory announced that it has begun mass production of 1-Gigabit and 512-Megabit DDR2 SDRAMs using 70-nanometer process technology. Manufacturing will be done at its main fab facility in Hiroshima, Japan.
The majority of DRAM on the market today is manufactured on the 90nm process. The move to 70nm process technology enables speed increases to 800MHz and 1GHz and a reduction in chip size. The move also allows for incrementally more chips per DRAM wafer which decreases per-unit manufacturing costs.
A 1-Gb and 512-Mb DDR2 SDRAM using 70nm process technology can be used in many applications, including high-end servers that need to process large amounts of data, high-performance mobile equipment, HDTVs, DVD recorders, DSLR cameras and other digital consumer equipment that must have advanced image processing capabilities.
Elpida plans to make aggressive use of its new 70nm process technology in the production of memory for mobile phones and other mobile equipment and in memory products used in high-end digital consumer equipment and across the entire server/PC market. Production of DDR2 SDRAM using 70nm processing has already started and the first product shipments are expected to begin in the first quarter of 2007.''
