Samsung Electronics has today begun mass production of what it claims is the world’s fastest RAM for multimedia applications.

Samsung’s 256Mb XDR (eXtreme Data Rate) DRAM is 10 times faster than DDR 400 memory and five times faster than RDRam (PC800), Samsung claims.

Samsung plans to introduce a 512Mb XDR DRAM, capable of transferring data as fast as 12.8Gbps, during the first half of this year.