News on March 3, in November last year, Samsung announced the successful development of the industry's first LPDDR5X DRAM memory chip, using a 14nm process, speed, capacity and power consumption greatly improved. Today, Samsung once again announced that Qualcomm has successfully verified the LPDDR5X chip, which should soon be applied to Qualcomm's Snapdragon platform.
It is understood that the maximum speed of Samsung LPDDR5X DRAM can reach 8.5Gbps, which is about 1.3 times that of the previous generation of LPDDR5 running speed of 6.4Gbps. After Samsung and Qualcomm's cooperation optimization, the speed of the LPDDR5X is stable at 7.5Gbps, which is still 1.2 times the speed of the existing product, and it is expected to be used in the next generation of smartphones to improve the performance experience of ultra-high-resolution video recording and image recognition.
In addition, Samsung uses advanced circuit design and dynamic voltage frequency scaling technology to reduce the power consumption of the LPDDR5X by 20%, and the mobile phone will achieve higher performance while saving more power. Moreover, the single-chip capacity of Samsung LPDDR5X has reached 16GB, and the storage capacity of the flagship top-of-the-board version is expected to increase from 12GB to 16GB, which is officially on par with notebooks.
At present, mainstream Android mobile phones use the memory combination of LPDDR5 operation memory + UFS 3.1 flash memory, which is of great help to the overall performance improvement of mobile phones. Compared with LPDDR4X, LPDDR5 does improve significantly in terms of performance, but the power consumption has also increased a lot, so that when the technology was first introduced, some manufacturers did not use the "full blood version", which may be due to power consumption and cost considerations.
Nowadays, the high-end flagship machine of the Android camp is difficult to open the gap in hardware configuration, everyone is Qualcomm flagship chip + LPDDR5 + UFS3.1 iron triangle combination, the actual performance difference depends on the different optimization and scheduling strategies of each company. Different brands cannot differentiate in hardware configuration, and it is also difficult to pull apart the difference in price. In the era of value for money, lower prices will be more popular.
However, the launch of Samsung LPDDR5X storage may temporarily break this pattern, who uses this new technology first, you can take advantage of the product first, which will improve product performance, price, impact the high-end or some help. Ray is curious about who will start using the LPDDR5X, will it be Xiaomi?