Samsung Electronics says it has developed the industry's first 60-nanometer class, two-gigabit DDR-Two DRAM, which will go into mass production later this year.

The world’s largest chipmaker said Wednesday that the 60-nanometer, two-gigabit DDR-Two chip with a data transfer speed of 800 megabits per second has improved DRAM performance up to 20 percent, compared with the 80-nanometer chip.

The firm said that production efficiency for the new chip will also be enhanced by about 40 percent using a more advanced process technology.

With mass production of the two-gigabit chip set to begin by year's end, Samsung says it will be the first company to have its full DDR-Two product lineup in production at the 60-nanometer-class with data speeds from 512-megabits to two gigabits per second. Samsung already produces one-gigabit and 512-megabit chips using 60 nanometer-class process technology.

The new chips are said to be well-suited for servers, workstations and notebook PCs that require fast operating speeds.