The official Samsung PR on 50nm sampling, lol:
http://www.samsung.com/eu/Products/Semiconductor/news/article.asp?gubun=Global News&seq=0000309156
January 3, 2007 : Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology solutions, announced that it is now sampling its 16-gigabit (Gb) NAND flash memory with customers - the first NAND flash using 50 nanometer (nm) process technology. Samsung plans to begin mass producing its 16Gb NAND flash memory in the first quarter of 2007.
http://sst.pennnet.com/Articles/Art...RT&PUBLICATION_ID=5&ARTICLE_ID=286064&C=TECHN
In January the company announced sampling for 50nm-based 16Gbit NAND flash memory devices, with mass production slated for sometime in the current quarter (1Q07). Back in July Samsung said it had ramped to volume production of its 8Gbit NAND flash memory based on multilevel cell (MLC) architecture and 60nm process technologies, two years after announcing development of the technology.
This from Samsung about the 64GB SSD, which now in November…just a little later
, that only costs $2k. Oh darn, they just don’t seem to get those factories producing on time to their “plans” schedule:
http://www.samsung.com/eu/Products/Semiconductor/news/article.asp?gubun=Global News&seq=0000334307
March 27, 2007 : Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced at its annual Mobile Solution Forum in Taipei that it has developed a 1.8”-type 64 Gigabyte (GB) flash-solid state drive (SSD). The new flash-SSD is based on an eight gigabit (Gb) single-level-cell (SLC) NAND, which provides significantly higher performance over conventional SSDs…
Samsung plans to start mass production of the 1.8"-type 64GB flash-SSD in the second quarter of this year.
http://www.samsung.com/eu/Products/Semiconductor/news/article.asp?gubun=Global News&seq=0000356677
June 25, 2007 : Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced that it has begun mass producing 1.8-inch solid state drives (SSD) at 64GB (gigabytes) - the highest density SSD available today for mobile computing applications.
So, 4-6 months later after “mass” production, they start showing up in laptops by Alienware, and a month or so later at retail for only $2k
LOL, seems Samsung has trouble getting things into production anywhere near their best ‘guess’. Took almost 11 months to get last year's announced 50nm tech into the very expensive 64GB SSD drives just recently available. Will they or will they not ever produce the 40nm CTF SSD’s they announced last Sept ’06? Given a rather optimistic stated MP (mass production) of 2009 on the 30nm process just announced (which supposedly uses the same TANOS tech as last year's announced 40nm CTF), we wouldn’t expect Samsung to rely on 50nm tech through 2009, so what are they planning on producing in 2008?…CTF@40nm???
http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192700704
Samsung said it plans to begin mass production of the 40-nm NAND (CTF) flash in 2008
Got to give it to Samsung, they’re paper announcements for memory are less vaporware than their OLED products, though they still use young female models to ‘showcase’ all of them…for the target market
http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/samsungs-40-inch-oled-tv-pics/
Prototype was 40in announced in May 2005, with statements that it could be in production by late 2006
OddManOut @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM
"Samsung certainly seems to employ a lot of cute asian chicks"
There's a very good reason for that. The marketing works. It's really unfair to take advantage of us sleazy gadget freaks like that. Reminds me of that subscription I used to have to 'T3' magazine. Cool stuff I could never affor, and hot chicks I could never have. It's fricken torture on high gloss laminate...
LOL...maybe I'm just more susceptible than most. I remember when Episode 1 was about to come out, MTV gave so details away a day or two before the premier. It was just a 3 minute spot, the naration came on and said somthing to the effect that they were about to give away some of the plot (plot ? in Ep 1 ?) so if you didn't want it to be spoiled to just 'sit back and enjoy the graphics'. Then this bikini clad asian chick came on stage and started dancing like a stripper with some techno-hiphop music playing. The voice went on talking and DID in fact give away some details that I had tuned in specifically to hear, but honest to god, I was so distract by the shakin' and groovin' that by the time it was over I couldn't remember what the heck had been said, which I'm sure the was whole d@mn point. I felt like such an idiot...
So I did what any idiotic geek would do. I hit rewind and watched it again...
and again...
and again...
and again...
Then as I was digitizing the footage into an mpeg I looked up the spoiler on the internet...
Oh yeah, that's a big TV...
Now they say maybe in 2010, heh, they are only 4 years off, assuming they’ve got it right this time…check back in 2010 to see if they revise it again for 2014+!
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20071029/141477/
40- to 42-inch full HD (high definition) OLED TVs in 2010… As for OLED lighting systems, Chung said, "It won't be long before we commercialize them," because the OLED's light emitting efficiency is currently doubling every year. The company currently achieves 50lm/W luminance, a life of 20,000 hours till the initial luminance halves and a color rendering property of more than 80 colors
50lm/w??? That’s 1/2 th efficiency of old cold cathode LCD tech, wtf.
"We will provide a flexible OLED display by 2012 at the latest," he added.
Oh, Pinnocio your nose is getting really long.
