Samsung: the 8.5Gbps LPDDR5X has been verified on the Snapdragon mobile platform
Samsung announced that its latest LPDDR5X has the industry’s fastest 8.5 Gbps rate and has been validated for use on the Snapdragon mobile platform. Since the release of LPDDR5X, Samsung has been working closely with Qualcomm to optimize the Snapdragon mobile platform. In March of this year, LPDDR5X with a rate of 7.5 Gbps passed the verification first, proving Samsung’s leadership in the memory market. Many people speculate that the 8.5 Gbps rate LPDDR5X may be used in Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen2 platform.
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The rate of 8.5 Gbps is 1.3 times that of the current LPDDR5 (6.4 Gbps). After Samsung adopts the 14nm process, the power consumption is also reduced by about 20% compared with LPDDR5. The single-chip capacity of 16Gbit and the maximum package capacity are 64GB to meet the needs of higher capacity in the mobile field. Samsung has already started mass production of DDR5 DRAM using the 14nm process using EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) technology, and it may also be applied to LPDDR5X in the future.
For more than a decade, Samsung has been driving the mobile DRAM market for high-end smartphones, allowing more consumers to experience greater computing power on mobile devices. Due to its low power consumption and high-performance characteristics, the LPDDR memory family is rapidly gaining popularity in modern computing devices and is now found in smartphones, PCs, HPCs, servers, and automobiles, with very strong growth over the past few years.
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Since the LPDDR family of memory combines low power consumption with high performance in a small form factor, it can help PC makers to build smaller, lighter, and more powerful laptops. Samsung believes that high-bandwidth memories like the LPDDR series can process data faster in vehicles as autonomous driving functions become more widely available. For data center and edge servers, the LPDDR family of memory also helps reduce power consumption, heat, and carbon emissions, while improving the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data center managers.
