Today Samsung Electronics, the Korean world leader in advanced memory technology, announced that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 12-gigabit (GB) LPDDR5 mobile DRAM, which has been optimized for enabling 5G and AI features in future smartphones.
The new mobile memory comes just five months after announcing mass production of the 12GB LPDDR4X, further reinforcing the company’s premium memory lineup. Samsung also plans to start mass producing 12-gigabyte (GB) LPDDR5 packages later this month, each combining eight of the 12Gb chips, in line with growing demand for higher smartphone performance and capacity from premium smartphone manufacturers.
Samsung introduced its LPDDR5 chip technology last year in hopes of providing 5G phones with a fast, energy-efficient RAM that can power machine learning and AI applications.
Like the LPDDR4X RAM, the component is built on Samsung’ second-gen 10-nanometer chip. It was designed, however, to be around 1.3 times faster. In a 12GB package with eight 12Gb chips, the component will allow phones to transfer a whopping 44GB of data or around 12 full-HD movies, based on Samsung’s computation, in a single second.
Further, the new component uses 30 percent less power than its predecessor. Samsung says those characteristics will give next-gen flagship phones the capabilities they need “to fully leverage 5G and AI capabilities like ultra-high-definition video recording and machine learning, while greatly extending the battery life”
Samsung’s memory business has been suffering in recent months due to a drop in prices and sales, so it’s no surprise that it’s been ramping things up in that department. In fact, the conglomerate is planning to develop a 16Gb LPDDR5 next year for smartphones with even more advanced features.
