Samsung Electronics today announced that it has begun mass production of the industry?s first 1GB DDR-II dual in-line memory module (DIMM), based on 512Mbit DDR-II components. "DDR-II is a viable technology and will play an important role in enabling the development of a new generation of feature-rich, high-speed gaming PCs, servers and network computers," said Tom Quinn, Samsung?s US vice president of memory sales and marketing. DDR-II delivers twice the external bandwidth of a standard DDR solution for the same internal frequency. The 1.8-volt device features a high-speed data transfer rate of 533Mbps that can be extended to 667Mbps for networks and special system environments. Samsung first shipped engineering samples of a JEDEC standard-compliant 512Mbit DDR-II to major chipset developers last May. Source: Digitimes