Samsung Electronics recently announced that its 512GB embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) 3.0 was awarded Carbon Footprint and Water Footprint Certifications from the highly respected UK-based Carbon Trust. A globally accredited non-profit certification body, The Carbon Trust was established by the British government to accelerate the move to a sustainable, low-carbon economy. Each certification by the organization was made after a thorough assessment of the environmental impact of carbon emissions and water usage before and throughout the production cycle, based on international standards. Samsung was awarded during a ceremony at the British Embassy in Seoul, Korea, making it the first mobile memory in the industry to be recognized by an international certifying organization following the company’s extensive efforts to reduce carbon and water footprints.
“We are extremely pleased that our cutting-edge memory technologies not only demonstrate our capability to overcome more challenging process complexities, but also are recognized for their environmental sustainability,” said Chanhoon Park, executive vice president and head of Giheung Hwaseong Pyeongtaek Complex at Samsung Electronics. “Samsung will continue to create memory solutions that provide the highest levels of speed, capacity and power efficiency at extremely small geometries for end-users worldwide.”
Enabling sustainable production
Based on the company’s fifth-generation (90+ layers) V-NAND, Samsung’s 512GB eUFS 3.0 provides optimal speed, power efficiency and productivity to deliver twice the capacity and 2.1 times the sequential speed of its fourth generation (64 layers) V-NAND-based 256GB eUFS 2.1, while requiring 30 percent less operating voltage. Additionally, Samsung’s fifth-generation V-NAND utilizes a unique etching technology that pierces more than 90 cell layers in a single precise step. This allows the chip to have nearly 1.5 times more stacked layers than the previous generation and accommodate a 25-percent reduction in chip size. Such innovations help to minimize the overall increase in carbon and water footprints for each V-NAND cell layer.
Samsung was also awarded Environmental Product
Declaration (EPD) labels for its ‘1-terabyte (TB) eUFS 2.1’ and its
‘fifth-generation 512-gigabit (Gb) V-NAND’ by the Korean Ministry of
Environment.
Samsung plans to
actively expand the adoption of its highly sustainable, high-capacity premium
memory solutions into many more flagship smartphones and further strengthen
global
