Samsung, ARM shake on microprocessor deal

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Samsung Electronics Company Ltd of South Korea has inked a deal with ARM Ltd of the UK for the use of its ARM9TDMI and ARM920T microprocessor cores. The ARM9TDMI and Smasung's 0.25um CMOS will be loaded in a single ASIC chip that will offer 150MHz clock rates at 2.5 V. The ARM920T will be used by Samsung to develop a system-on-chip. The resulting products, which will be released within 1999, are intended for portable communications systems and networks.

Microprocessor Chips, Strategic alliances, CPUs (Central processing units), Samsung Electronics Company Ltd.

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Samsung ships samples of ferroelectric RAMs

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Samsung Electronics Company Ltd of South Korea has shipped engineering samples of a series of ferroelectric RAMs that the company developed for use in cellular telephones and game machines. The ferroelectric chips feature a two-layer metal circuitry, 64KB capacities and low power consumption. The company is positioning the ferroelectric RAMs to replace SRAMs in some electronic devices.

Marketing procedures, Random Access Memories, RAM (Random access memory)

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