Samsung Semiconductor -- Bringing Dreams into Reality with Innovation

In 1925, in the street of a small town in Wilschitz, Germany, 13-year-old Von Braun tied six huge fireworks to the scooter and lit the fuse... 44 years later, he let Armstrong land on the moon, realizing "a small step for individuals, a big step for mankind". Every great innovation sounds like a science fiction movie at first. For example, shopping can be done without leaving home via the Internet, AI can help you complete work and entertainment with one command, and even cars can drive automatically... Who would have thought that all this could be achieved by transistor Semiconductor technology as the basic operating unit.

In the early days, electronic vacuum tubes dominated the entire electronic industry, laying the foundation for the development of radio, telephone, television, radar and other fields, but it also had many fatal shortcomings, such as large size, high power consumption, short life, and easy interference. The world's first computer, ENIAC, used 17468 electronic tubes. On average, one tube needs to be replaced in a minute. The huge volume occupies three rooms. When the power of 150kW is turned on, the lights in the whole town will become dark. A moth flew into the electronic tube cluster, causing operation errors, making the word "bug" a computer term.

Since the birth of transistor in 1947, the electronic industry has undergone earth shaking changes. Transistor is the most basic semiconductor device. It realizes logic control by switching or amplifying signals, and converts digital information in binary system into electrical signals. The higher efficiency, smaller size and higher stability are the incomparable advantages of electronic vacuum tubes. For example, the first transistor computer launched by Bell Laboratories in 1955 only loaded 800 transistors, occupied only 3 cubic feet, and had only 100W power. Since then, semiconductors have become the foundation of modern computers.

In order to achieve higher performance and more functions, a large number of transistors need to work together to form an integrated circuit. After being packaged, it becomes a common type of chips, such as CPU, DRAM and Solid state hard disk With NAND, computers have also entered the era of large-scale/ultra large-scale integrated circuits, and their performance has improved while their size has also been shrinking. After decades of development, they have become familiar laptops and smartphones.

At the same time, the rise of 5G and the Internet makes cloud computing, big data, AI, automatic driving and other applications more dependent on high-performance chips. For example, intelligent driving chips need to be analyzed in combination with real-time road conditions and the vehicle's own endurance to provide correct decisions for vehicle driving; In the era when everything is AI, the evolution and development of the big model need AI chips to achieve autonomous learning. We know that chip performance depends on the number of internal transistors. How can we make more transistors on smaller semiconductor chips? This will reduce the width of the transistor gate, which is known as the semiconductor manufacturing process.

And improving the process of semiconductor chips is a test of the technical strength of semiconductor manufacturers. As early as 1983, Samsung Semiconductor had a full line of semiconductor engineering technology, and became the third VLSI semiconductor (VLSI) manufacturer in the world. In 2015, Samsung developed the 14nm FinFet manufacturing process. By 2022, Samsung will mass produce the 3nm GAAFET manufacturing process. The chip performance will be improved while the power consumption will also be significantly reduced. For example, the number of Exynos processor transistors used by Samsung in smart phones has exceeded 10 billion, and the main frequency will reach more than 2GHz.

The contribution of semiconductors to computer technology is also reflected in data storage. For quite a long period of time, the hard disk represented the disk drive PC has always been the main storage device of PC and server. In 2006, Samsung launched the first model equipped with solid state disk SSD With the reliability of no mechanical structure and the performance beyond the mechanical hard disk at that time, the notebook computer of ". Solid state hard disk is composed of master chip, NAND FLASH Memory chips and cache chips are essentially a collection of semiconductor chips.

As a leading global semiconductor brand, Samsung Semiconductor has advanced chip manufacturing process and design capabilities. Since 1993, it has been in a leading position in the global memory market. In terms of SSD solid-state storage, it has the ability to develop and produce all its chips by itself, and has created a number of industry benchmark products with epoch-making significance, such as Samsung 990 PRO solid-state drives, With 7450MB/s and 6900MB/s read/write speeds and up to 1400K IOPS and 1550K IOPS random performance, it has become a consumer grade PCIe Gen4 solid state disk.

In addition to advanced technology, Samsung Semiconductor also has its own innovation in storage devices. At CES in 2015, Samsung released a business card size mobile solid state drive T1, which has since ushered in the era of high-speed and high-capacity mobile storage. The subsequent T7 series showed their respective capabilities, such as the T7 Touch equipped with biometric technology and the T7 Shield emphasizing the "three prevention" performance; The newly launched T9, equipped with USB3.2 Gen2x2 Type-C interface, has a read/write speed of 2000MB/s, even surpassing the earlier PCIe NVMe solid state disk, and is compatible with the latest iPhone15 smart phone. It also has a 3-meter drop protection. It can be said that Samsung's NAND Flash is behind all kinds of innovations in the world. The same NAND Flash technology is applicable to Samsung B2C storage such as SSDs and portable SSDs.

Semiconductor chips are known as the "grain" of modern industry and the "pearl" of modern science and technology. The continuous evolution and upgrading of semiconductor technology are making people's dreams come true step by step, while the layout of future industries is ahead of schedule. The semiconductor process design and technology developed in advance will become the cornerstone of people's dreams. Let's wait and see.

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