Samsung secures global recognition for environmental sustainability of its semiconductor offerings

Samsung Electronics announced that its 512-gigabyte (GB) embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) 3.0 will be awarded Carbon Footprint and Water Footprint Certifications from UK-based Carbon Trust. 

Samsung’s 512GB eUFS 3.0 is initial mobile memory in the industry to be recognized by an international certifying organization, which was made possible through the company’s extensive efforts to reduce carbon and water footprints.

The Carbon Trust is a globally accredited non-profit certification body established by the British government to accelerate the move to a sustainable, low-carbon economy. Each certification by the Carbon Trust 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.

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. 

Samsung’s 512GB eUFS 3.0 stacks eight of the company’s fifth-generation 512-gigabit (Gb) V-NAND die and integrates a high-performance controller. At 2,100 megabytes-per-second (MB/s), the new eUFS doubles the sequential read rate of Samsung’s latest eUFS memory (eUFS 2.1) which was announced in January this year. 

The offering’s blazing read speed is four times faster than that of a SATA solid state drive (SSDs) and 20 times faster than a typical microSD card, allowing premium smartphones to transfer a full HD movie to a PC in about three seconds. In addition, the sequential write speed also has been improved by 50 percent to 410MB/s, which is equivalent to that of a SATA SSD.

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 is also being 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 partnerships for its next-generation memory technologies.

“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.”

Atos delivers data center, cloud and digital workplace solutions for gas and oil company Wintershall Dea

Atos has signed a long-term contract with Europe’s independent oil and gas company Wintershall Dea to build up its new IT structure, including operations and workplace environment. 

Atos will work on the project together with Cegal, a specialized IT provider for the oil and gas industry, to provide global datacenter and cloud services and deliver modernized digital workplace solutions and collaboration platforms.

This contract includes the challenge of creating a new IT infrastructure and integrating former Wintershall’s and DEA’s two IT systems following the merger in May 2019. 

Atos and Cegal will deliver datacenter and cloud services, as well as a best practice workplace environment, which includes a new framework to provide virtualized workstation solutions (VDI) for geologists and engineers.

“Our new IT structure will lay the foundation for our planned strategic growth in the coming years and for our innovations in the field of digital initiatives,” said Steffen Jean Gelder, senior vice president information technology of Wintershall Dea. “Therefore, we decided to sign a long-term contract with Atos, leveraging its digital transformation capabilities and global reach, and Cegal, the world’s leading oil and gas IT specialist.”

 “We reached this position by building on years of experience, combining industry software solutions and 3D data visualization through Cegal’s GeoCloud,” added Svein Torgersen, CEO of Cegal.

 “The joint team developed the industry’s best-in-class solution in order to fulfill Wintershall Dea’s ambitions for a new way of working,” summarized Robert Vassoyan, senior executive vice-president, Group Chief Commercial Officer of Atos. “This new approach improves collaboration and transparency between the corporate headquarter and the business units in different countries and leads to modern digital workplace solutions and collaboration platforms. Altogether, this is a major step in the oil and gas industry worldwide, as our partnership is the only one to provide those kinds of services on a global scale.”