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Samsung patents memory layout with transistors in multiple rows

Patent drawing from the official filing.

Samsung describes a design for row decoders, which are parts of memory chips that tell the chip which data to read or write. The filing details arranging transistors in multiple parallel rows to generate signals for adjacent memory lines.

Why it mattersThis is a routine improvement in chip manufacturing layout that may help fit more components into a small space, but it does not describe a new consumer feature.

In the filing’s own words

A row decoder includes a first driving circuit including a first transistor among a first row of transistors, the first driving circuit being configured to generate a first driving signal onto a first wordline extending in a first direction, a second driving circuit including a second transistor among a second row of transistors, the second driving circuit being configured to generate a second driving signal onto a second wordline, the second wordline extending in the first direction and being adjacent to the first wordline in a second direction, the first transistor and the second transistor functionally corresponding to each other, and the first row of transistors and the second row of transistors extend in the second direction and being arranged along the first direction.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1 - 20. (canceled)

Facts

Company: Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title: ROW DECODERS HAVING TRANSISTORS PLACED IN A PLURALITY OF ROWS AND MEMORY DEVICES INCLUDING THE SAME
Publication number: US20260301795A1
Application number: 19691834
Filed: May 29, 2026
Published: Oct 1, 2026
Inventors: 5
Claims: 21

Classified under

G11C 11/4087 Physics & computingG11C 11/4085 Physics & computing

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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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