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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd has announced development of NAND flash software specially created for high performance multimedia applications. The new software greatly simplifies multimedia system platform design by enabling Samsung's 16Gb NAND flash to be easily adapted to mobile applications with large storage needs, such as portable media players (PMP) and video MP3 players.



The new software, with accompanying transactional file system, supports all of the system performance requirements of Samsung's 16Gb NAND. Samsung's 16Gb NAND flash, which has been in mass production since April, programs data in 4KB pages of dual planes, twice as fast as previous generations. Samsung's new software optimizes the fast data transfer speeds of 16Gb NAND, while protecting against sudden power failures.



"The new 16Gb flash software supports increasingly popular Linux systems and enables chipset designers to reap the full storage and performance advantages of Samsung's 16Gb NAND," said Youngjoon Choi, Vice President, NAND flash product planning, memory division, Semiconductor Business, Samsung Electronics. "There will be considerable demand for Samsung's 16Gb NAND which can offer up to 16GB of storage in a single consumer electronics (CE) device, enough to hold up to 20 DVD movies."



The new flash software will be used immediately with a new chipset from Actions Semiconductor Co. Ltd¡Xthe ATJ213X¡Xa highly-integrated 32-bit RISC, and 24-bit DSP-based system on a chip (SoC). Samsung's new software will be available to consumer electronics system designers as part of Actions' support software package for its new chipset, which will be available later this month. Actions Semiconductor is one of China's leading fabless semiconductor companies, providing comprehensive mixed-signal, SoC solutions for portable consumer electronics.



"We are pleased that Actions has won the time-to-market race to best serve the marketplace through its rapid and extensive support of Samsung's 50nm 16Gb NAND flash," said Nan-Horng Yeh, CEO, Actions Semiconductor.



As Samsung continues to aggressively develop next-generation NAND flash, the new 16Gb NAND support software demonstrates how the company is bolstering its ability to develop advanced software to further boost NAND performance.



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