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Samsung Electronics has announced that it had begun mass production of LPDDR4 memory chips with 12Gb capacity. The new memory devices were designed for high-performance smartphones and tablets that require a lot of ultra-fast dynamic random access memory.
Samsung’s 12Gb LPDDR4 memory chip not only features unprecedented capacity – 12Gb, or 1.5GB – but also operates at 4266MHz effective clock-rate, which is considerably faster than the frequency of DDR4 modules for personal computers. The chip has 32-bit wide bus (two independent 16-bit busses) and has peak memory bandwidth of 17GB/s.
Samsung will sell its new 12Gb LPDDR4 memory devices in 3GB and 6GB packages, enabling smartphones and tablets with unprecedented amount of dynamic random access memory (DRAM).
The 12Gb LPDDR4 chips are made using a 20nm-class process technology and are considerably more energy-efficient than DDR3 or DDR4 chips used by personal computers thanks to 1.1V voltage (DDR4 has 1.2V voltage).
Samsung believes that in addition to smartphones and tablets, LPDDR4 memory will be used for ultra-slim PCs, digital appliances and automotive devices over time. Nowadays Apple MacBook notebooks use LPDDR3 memory instead of PC DRAM in a bid to prolong battery life.
“By initiating mass production of 12Gb LPDDR4 mobile DRAM in an extremely timely manner, we now are not only helping OEMs to accelerate their moves to the next generation of mobile devices, but also providing functionality that will give mobile consumers greatly enhanced user experiences,” said Joo Sun Choi, executive vice president of memory sales and marketing at Samsung Electronics. “Furthermore, we intend to closely collaborate with our global customers to move beyond premium smartphones and tablets in creating new digital markets that embrace the full potential of cutting-edge technologies like next-generation mobile DRAM.”
Samsung will begin to sell its 12Gb LPDDR4 memory chips in the coming months.
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KitGuru Says: The ability to install 6GB of memory into a smartphone or tablet will enable Samsung to considerably increase performance of its products. Eventually, such chips will be used by companies like Apple and others.
We just started seeing LPDDR4 with 1600 Mhz. in the first half and now before this year ends we’ll see LPDDR4 with it’s highest 2133 Mhz. Faster is not possible for LPDDR4. I think for 2016/7 we’ll need LPDDR5 and 16 Gb/ 2 Gbyte Chips for a total of 8 Gbyte of Memory in a 10nm class.
CES 2018. Nvidia:
Hello there, with 10nm Finfet and Volta we’re bringing you 768 Volta Cores (the same amount as a great black box named Xbox One has) with more than 2 Tflops, more than the PS4 has and LPDDR5 which is in fact as fast as the DDR3 in the Xbox One (68 gbps) or even Wide I/O 3 with up to 102 gbps.
As storage we’ll use UFS 3 with Terabyte or eMMC 6 with up to 2 Terabyte,
Maybe?
PS4 boasts a 1.84 teraflop GPU that’s based on AMD’s Radeon technology. The Xbox One graphics chip, also with an AMD Radeon GPU, has a pipeline for 1.31 teraflops.