Despite the evidently declining PC and consumer electronics market, Samsung appears to be bent upon pushing forward and expanding its technology - it has announced its newly developed chip, the first of its kind 4Gbit DDR3 DRAM ((Dynamic Random Access Memory).

Having two times the density of Samsung's earlier chips, the low-power chip uses a 50-nanometer (nm) lithography process, and yields DIMM modules of 32GB capacity.

According to the company, the 4Gbit DDR3 will help in bringing down the data center costs, due to requirement of fewer machines, improvement in server time management, and increase in overall efficiency.

In a statement, Kevin Lee, technical marketing VP at Samsung Semiconductor, said: "We have leveraged our strength in innovation to develop the first 4-Gb DDR3, in leading the industry to higher DRAM densities."

With the ability to transfer input/output data eight times quicker than the earlier DDR2 models, the DDR3 also reduces power consumption by 30 percent. To begin with, just about 29 percent of DRAM products to be sold this year will include DDR3 system memory; but by 2011, it will be steadily expand to nearly 72 percent.

Moreover, though the chip will initially work in combination with the latest available "green" PC's, for bringing about an exceedingly proficient system; the technology will gradually find its way into dual in-line memory modules, servers and laptops.