Samsung (News - Alert) Electronics, a provider of semiconductor technology solutions, reportedly has announced that its embedded memory, OneDRAM, is being used in a new SGH-L870 handset.

 

The OneDRAM from Samsung enables a “ten-fold increase” in the data processing speeds between the two processors in mobile handsets – a communication processor and an application processor.

 

The solution’s interface complies with the joint electron device engineering council’s low-power, double-data-rate memory standard. It also channels data between the processors through a single chip.

 

The use of single chip eliminates the need for dynamic random access memory and static random access memory chips as a buffer memory, according to company officials.

 

“Thanks to Samsung’s OneDRAM, we were able to come up with faster and more efficient multimedia features for SGH-L870,” said ES Hwang, vice president of Handset R&D team at Samsung Electronics.

 

In May, the company introduced its Samsung SGH-L870, a S60 phone in a slider form factor that has a 3-megapixel camera, FM radio and 3G connectivity. It runs S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2. This model was launched in Europe last month.

 

“In order to stay competitive, handset OEMs are requiring higher performance to support a larger array of services and functions at cost-effective prices,” said Sei-Jin Kim, vice president for memory division at Samsung Electronics.

 

Kim said that Samsung’s embedded memory solutions, such as the new OneDRAM, have been welcomed by leading application designers around the world for their performance enhancements, cost efficiency and timely technical support.

 

OneDRAM supports requirements of a wide range of telecommunications services. Samsung’s 133MHz 512Mb OneDRAM receives data from the modem processor at a 533MB/s transfer rate and forwards it to the application processor at 1.06GB/s.

 

The 1 GB OneDRAM is designed on a 166MHz scale for even faster performance. Additionally, the smaller number of chips in Samsung’s OneDRAM allows for the use of a printed circuit board only two-thirds the size of those used in conventional handsets.