#lpddr4 dram

The speculation arose when Samsung announced that the mass production of industry’s first low-power double-data rate 4 (LPDDR4) mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) with 8GB capacity which is based on the company’s 20nm process. According to Samsung, their new LPDDR4 DRAM will be two-times faster than a “typical DDR3 RAM” for PC and, in the case of the 2GB package, is expected to be 40% more power efficient than its LPDDR3 counterpart. Furthermore, the South Korean giant stated that apart from lowering the operating voltage to 1.1V, the company’s new 8GB LPDDR4 DRAMs can support Ultra-High Definition video recording and playback, not to mention continuous shooting of 20MP+ pictures. Samsung Electronics has announced that they have started the production of their 2nd-generation 10nm 16Gb Lower Power, Double Data Rate 4X (LPDDR4X) Mobile DRAM today. According to Samsung, the 2nd- generation LPDDR4X DRAM features up to a 10 percent power reduction while maintaining the same data rate of 4,266 megabits per second (Mb/s). Samsung has also created an 8GB LPDDR4X mobile DRAM package by combining four of the 10nm-class 16Gb LPDDR4X DRAM chips (16Gb=2GB). The company added that it will be expanding its premium DRAM lineup based on the 1y-nm process by more than 70%. Read more in our articles including "Samsung to Launch First Smartphone w/ 4GB RAM" and "Samsung starts production of 2nd-gen 16Gb LPDDR4X Mobile DRAM".