Samsung Electronics Co. said that it has developed an LPDDR5X DRAM chip that supports the industry’s fastest data processing speed, optimizing it for various artificial intelligence devices.
Samsung unveils industry’s fastest LPDDR5X DRAM
It supports the industry’s highest performance speed of up to 10.7 gigabits per second (Gbps). Leveraging 12-nanometer class processing technology, Samsung said it has achieved the smallest chip size among existing LPDDRs, or low-power double data rate chips, solidifying its technological leadership in the low-power DRAM market.
The company said at the time that it successfully proved the performance of its LPDDR5X DRAM on Qualcomm Technologies Inc.’s Snapdragon mobile platform at a speed of 8.5 Gbps. Samsung’s 10.7Gbps LPDDR5X not only improves performance by more than 25% and capacity by more than 30%, compared to its previous generation models, but also expands the single package capacity of mobile DRAM up to 32 gigabytes (GB), making it optimal for mobile AI devices, it said.
“As demand for low-power, high-performance memory increases, LPDDR DRAM is expected to expand its applications from mainly mobile to other areas that traditionally require higher performance and reliability such as PCs, accelerators, servers and automobiles,” said YongCheol Bae, Executive Vice President of Memory Product Planning of the Memory Business at Samsung Electronics. “Samsung will continue to innovate and deliver optimized products for the upcoming on-device AI era through close collaboration with customers.”
