Can you remember the days when mobile phones needed only to have enough memory to satisfy the storage needs of the 100 phone numbers that was allowed in the device? With the advent of the camera phone and, even today, with the continuous streaming of mobile media though Internet-capable phones, the demand for high memory in mobile devices is increasing at an exponential rate.

Until now, the recent answer to this problem has been solved through external memory cards, but mobile phone manufactures have recently been plagued with having to develop interface software for the NAND memory on mobile devices. In turn, this drives up the cost on the consumers end and drives the cost even further when the purchase of an expensive memory module comes into play.

Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, is offering a new solution with the development of a four gigabyte multi-chip package (MCP), known as moviMPC, that relinquishes the need for an external memory card slot. 

“We’ve now perfected a memory chip that allows handset manufacturers to significantly reduce development time while deploying an extremely robust design that will result in higher performance for smaller phones, with higher storage capacities,” said Jim Elliott, director, flash marketing director, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

Samsung’s new moviMCP combines a 4GB embedded memory card, consisting of two 16Gbit NAND flash chips combined with 1Gbit of mobile DRAM to support the processor and a 2Gb NAND chip for general operations.

The result is a high-speed memory package with a total memory capability of 35Gbit that fully supports the communication features integrated in the handset.

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Entry was posted on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 at 4:23 am under Cell phones.

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