Samsung Electronics Announces Mass Production of 6th Generation 10nm-Class DRAM Within This Year

Sharing DRAM Mass Production Roadmap Through MemCon Presentation

Samsung Electronics will begin mass production of 6th-generation 10㎚ (1㎚ = one billionth of a meter) class DRAM within this year.

According to the semiconductor industry on the 4th, Samsung Electronics made a presentation containing the roadmap at the global semiconductor conference 'MemCon 2024' held last month in Mountain View, California, USA. Samsung Electronics is the first to specifically reveal plans for mass production of 6th-generation 10㎚ class DRAM.

Samsung Electronics announced mass production of the 5th generation 10-nanometer class (12-nanometer class) 16-gigabit (Gb) DRAM in May last year.
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If Samsung Electronics mass-produces the product within this year, it will introduce the next-generation product in just over a year. Samsung Electronics announced in May last year that it would mass-produce 5th-generation 10㎚ class DRAM. This followed the news of mass production of 4th-generation 10㎚ class DRAM in 2021, introducing the next-generation product after about two years.

Samsung Electronics plans to reduce circuit line widths through extreme ultraviolet (EUV) processes during the mass production of 6th-generation 10㎚ class DRAM. Previously, the company first applied the EUV process to 1st-generation 10㎚ class DRAM in 2020.

At this event, Samsung Electronics also shared additional roadmap schedules related to follow-up products. They announced plans to mass-produce 7th-generation 10㎚ class products in 2026 and to introduce DRAM using single-digit nanometer processes after 2027.

Meanwhile, at this year’s MemCon, Samsung Electronics introduced several next-generation memory semiconductor solutions to lead the artificial intelligence (AI) era, including Compute Express Link (CXL) and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). They explained that in terms of capacity, CXL and in terms of bandwidth, HBM technology will lead the future AI era.

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