The LPDDR4X chips can deliver the current 4,266Mbps data rate at 10 percent more efficiency. The memory chip will be available in 4GB, 6GB and 8GB packages.
Samsung’s new DRAM chips just went into mass production for use in “next-gen flagship” smartphones. Samsung Electronics, the subsidiary that manufactures chipsets for Samsung announced that the new memory chips are based on an industry-first 2nd-gen 10-nanometer class (1y-nm) process. The 16 Gb LPDDR4X DRAM, Samsung claims, will improve the efficiency of smartphones and control the battery drain.
Moreover, the DRAM chip achieves the current speed of 4,266Mbps that is a standard in today’s flagship phones, but with a decrease in power intake by up to 10 percent, as compared to the DRAM memory chips used presently.
“The advent of 10nm-class mobile DRAM will enable significantly enhanced solutions for next-generation, flagship mobile devices that should first hit t he market late this year or the first part of 2019,” Sewon Chun, Senior Vice President of Memory Sales and Marketing at Samsung Electronics said in a statement.
Samsung’s initiative to manufacture high capacity, low power memory chips began with the first 10nm-class 8Gb DDR4 server DRAM last November. The 16Gb LPDDR4X DRAM goes into product just eight months after. The company is expected to expand production of the 1y-nm process-based DRAM chips by more than 70 percent.
Furthermore, Samsung announced that it has created an 8GB LPDDR4X mobile DRAM chip by combining four of 10nm-class 16Gb LPDDR4X DRAM, as 16Gb converts to 2GB. It’s a four-channel package that can deliver a data rate of 34.1GB per second. The chip’s dimensions have been shrunk by more than 20 percent as compared to the 1st-generation package. That should allow phone manufacturers to make even more slimmer devices.
The LPDDR4X DRAM chips will be made in 4GB, 6GB and 8GB packages in a bid to capture more market share. The chips are being manufactured in a new DRAM production line in Pyeongtaek, Korea that the company claims will assure a stable supply of all mobile DRAM chips.
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