The firm began to expand the market for 4Gb DRAM last year with mass-produced 30nm-class DRAM, and now wants to capture most of the advanced memory market with its latest 20nm-class 4Gb DRAM
Samsung's Android-based phone and Nokia mobile phone device sales together represented over 40 percent of smartphone sales. No other vendors achieved more than a 10 percent market share
Performance can be boosted by trimming away some of the rarely used portions of digital circuits on a microchip. Another approach, called “confined voltage scaling,” trades some performance gains by taking advantage of improvements in processing speed to further cut power demands
