Flash Ramp Sparks Fears Of Price War

Tokyo - Samsung Semiconductor Inc. is ramping mass-production of 512-Mbit NAND flash memory chips, in a move that analysts suggested could prompt a flash market bloodbath.

The company claims to have developed a storage cell structure that lowers voltage demands and cuts data write times by as much as 30 percent. Samsung said last week that it will use existing production lines and a technology that requires fewer process steps on its 0.15-micron process. It said it will leverage that technology to extend the product line into lower-capacity products in the second half.

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