SK Hynix, the world’s second largest DRAM manufacturer, recently successfully developed 8 gigabit(Gb), low power double data rate(DDR) 3 mobile DRAM. SK Hynix has become the first company to develop a 8 Gb DRAM, following Samsung Electronics, which started mass-producing 4Gb mobile DRAM in April this year.

Mobile DRAM, which is mostly embedded in smartphones and tablet PCs, is burgeoning amid rapidly growing mobile market. The development of the 8 Gb chip signals SK Hynix has challenged Samsung Electronics, the top global DRAM maker, further heating up the competition in the mobile DRAM market.

SK Hynix used the up-to-date 25 nano technology to develop the 8 Gb mobile DRAM, and plans to massproduce the chip by late this year at the earliest. The Korea-based chip maker sent prototypes to mobile phone manufacturers that employ Android operating system(OS) such as LG Electronics, Pantech, and Chinese companies.

If some of them choose SK Hynix’s 8 Gb chip, it is projected to be embedded in their smartphones due to be released early next year. Using four units of the 8Gb chip, smartphone makers can manufacture a slimmer, high-capacity smartphone with a capacity of 32 Gb, or 4 gigabytes(GB), said SK Hynix.

By Kim Min-su : Here