New chip can send half a million pages of data per second: Samsung

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2005

SEOUL (AFP) — Samsung Electronics, South Korea's top hi-tech company, said its new graphics memory chip could transmit data equivalent to half a million pages of news print per second.

The company said it will begin commercial production of the world's fastest memory chip around the end of this year.

The new 2.0 Gbps high-speed graphics solution runs at up to 8.0 GigaBytes per second (GBps), which is 70 percent faster than current conventional 1.2 Gbps devices.

The company said it can transmit data equivalent to 34 years of a 40-page broadsheet daily newspaper, or almost half a million pages every second.

This new chip will provide high-quality images and fast animation in PCs, workstations and high-end game consoles, the company said.

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