Samsung Launches Their First Shipment of Extreme Ultraviolet DRAM with 1 Million Modules Sent Out

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Samsung announced a new first today. They have just shipped 1 million modules of DRAM made using EUV lithography. Extreme Ultraviolet lithography is a new process being employed in chip manufacturing. This new technique has been applied to ship their 10 nm D1a class DDR4 modules.



From Samsung:



“EUV technology reduces repetitive steps in multi-patterning and improves patterning accuracy, enabling enhanced performance and greater yields as well as shortened development time.”



For a more detailed read on this process you may want to check out this fascinating article over at Gigaphoton. Samsung’s news did not stop there. They also...

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Now you pray that they'll be BAD-die successors, rather than Yet Another High Frequency **** Timings IC :)
 
More dies per wafer, lower power, higher frequency, is that what I am hearing?

They will still somehow manage to increase prices dramatically.

Still kinda neat. Maybe time for a new dimm form factor if the die size keeps shrinking.
 
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