Samsung brings some big news today, the company has decided to debut their newest DDR3 chips using 50nm technology and also unleashing news of increased power savings and higher productivity levels compared to DDR2 of equivalent density, the new modules are slated to arrive later this year but already the talk is being turned out about 16GB RIMM's being a possibility as 8GB RIMMs or 4GB SODIMMs, the memory market just got a huge boost for delivering high capacity to the end user.

The 2GB chips are doing quite well in testing, reducing the consumption normally found between 2 1GB chips by 40% in a single module solution, on top of this the company notes that they're able to pull a data rate of 1.3Gbps at 1.35 or 1.5v while giving a smaller thermal footprint in the process. The company seems to be slated to go full steam into 50nm processing with teh 2Gb DDR3 being the first application of it.

With the companies in the industry already getting behind DDR3 it seems that this should prove to be quite useful by years end, for those looking to jump into 4GB kits it might be wise to just wait around a little more and see how this development changes the SKU's that we see right now. One thing is certain as well, 64bit editions of XP and Vista will probably be moving quite a bit faster if 8GB kits start to become a mainstream possibility given the existing memory cap on 32bit editions.

As more comes out of Samsung on the chips we'll have it out there for sure.