Samsung Starts Mass Producing LPDDR4X Memory Chips for 8GB RAM in Smartphones

Samsung today announced that it has started mass producing its 2d-gen ten-nanometer-form (1y-nm) LPDDR4X DRAM for premium smartphones. Compared to the 1st-gen 10nm (1x-nm ) 16Gb LPDDR4X DRAM memory chips that are used in current flagship mobile devices, the second–gen chips are expected to better efficiency and lower power consumption by ten percent while maintaining the aforementioned data rate of 4,266 megabits per second (Mb/s).

Samsung has combined four of the 10nm-grade 16Gb LPDDR4X DRAM chips to create an 8GB LPDDR4X mobile DRAM package that's 20 per centum slimmer, which should help smartphone OEMs reduce the thickness of their handheld devices even further. The visitor says it will be offering chips manufactured by the new process in 4GB, 6GB and 8GB avatars to its customers.

In a press argument, the senior vice president of Memory Sales & Marketing at Samsung Electronics, Sewon Chun, said that devices with 10nm mobile DRAM fries are expected to exist released by the finish of this year, or by early 2019.

"The advent of 10nm-class mobile DRAM will enable significantly enhanced solutions for next-generation, flagship mobile devices that should showtime striking the market place tardily this yr or the starting time part of 2019. We will keep to grow our premium DRAM lineup to lead the 'high-performance, loftier capacity, and low ability' memory segment to meet the market demand and strengthen our concern competitiveness"

Meanwhile, the release further states that the company plans to expand its premium 1y-nm-based DRAM lineup by more than 70 pct, and towards than end, has started operating a new line at Pyeongtaek to come across demand.