[News] Samsung Reportedly Unveils NAND Tech to Cut Power by 96% amid Research Unit Shake-Up

Amid memory supply crunch and surging prices pressuring the industry, Samsung, according to ETNews and News 1, has developed a NAND flash technology that can reduce power consumption by more than 90%, which is expected to boost energy efficiency across AI data centers, mobile devices, and a wide range of applications.

On November 27, SAIT (formerly Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology) reportedly announced it will publish in Nature its research on a new NAND flash structure to dramatically improve power efficiency. According to ETNews, Samsung has, for the first time in the world, identified the key mechanism in combining oxide semiconductors with ferroelectric structures to cut power consumption by up to 96%.

As the reports explain, conventional NAND flash stores data by injecting electrons into each cell. Thus, to boost capacity, manufacturers stack more layers of these cells. But because NAND cells are connected in long serial chains, taller stacks require higher voltages to push signals through—driving up read/write power consumption, the reports note.

Samsung’s breakthrough, as per the reports, lies on the usage of oxide semiconductors. Although oxide semiconductors typically struggle with precise threshold-voltage control, they naturally exhibit extremely low leakage current. The team showed that when this property is combined with ferroelectric polarization control, it becomes a key mechanism for sharply reducing the voltage needed to operate NAND cell strings, the reports add.

News1 points out that once it reaches commercialization, the technology is set to drive significant power savings from hyperscale AI data centers to mobile and edge AI. Samsung says the advance charts its path toward future low-power, high-capacity SSD leadership, according to the report.

Samsung Revamps SAIT in Strategic Shake-Up

Notably, FN news reveals that Samsung has overhauled its top-tier research arm, SAIT (formerly Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology), shifting it to a new “lab-based” structure as part of a broader shake-up within the semiconductor (DS) division. DS Division Head and Vice Chairman Jong-Yeon Hyun has recently reassigned more researchers to business units, slimming SAIT down into a tighter, more agile organization built around focused labs, the report suggests.

The revamp also comes with a headline move: according to FN News, Harvard professor Hong-Keun Park has been appointed as SAIT’s new director, while the AI research unit—previously folded into the company’s AI Center—is being brought back under SAIT to ramp up forward-looking AI research.

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