The commercial mass production of advanced electronic systems has made high-quality electronic devices exceedingly affordable, and slashed defense budgets force the U.S. military to look for cost savings wherever possible.

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Samsung started mass production of the industry's most advanced mobile DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chip, only 10 months after it began producing the industry's first 30nm-class based 2GB LPDDR2 memory in October, 2011.

ENGADGET: Samsung starts producing faster 2GB LPDDR3 memory for mobile devices, 128GB flash storage too

Mass production of its 20nm-class 64Gb 3-bit NAND designed on advanced toggle NAND architecture is anticipated for early next year.

ENGADGET: Samsung announces 32GB microSD card capable of 12MBps write speeds