Samsung Electronics today announced that it has developed the industry's first LPDDR5X DRAM, supporting the industry's highest performance of 10.7 Gbps. Leveraging 12-nanometer (nm)-class process technology, Samsung has achieved the smallest chip size in existing LPDDR, solidifying its technology leadership in the low-power DRAM market.
"As the demand for low-power, high-performance memory memory increases, the application of LPDDR DRAM is expected to expand from the main mobile sector to other areas that traditionally require higher performance and reliability, such as PCs, accelerators, servers, and automobiles," said YongCheol Bae, executive vice president, memory product planning, Samsung Electronics' memory business. With the proliferation of AI applications, on-device AI that can be processed directly on the device is becoming increasingly important, highlighting the need for low-power, high-performance LPDDR memory. "
Samsung's 10.7 Gbps LPDDR5X not only improves performance by more than 25% and capacity by more than 30% compared to the previous generation, but also expands the capacity of mobile DRAM to 32GB in a single package, making it a solution that requires high-performance, high-capacity, and low-power memory in the era of on-device AI.
In particular LPDDR5X specialized power-saving technologies are employed, such as optimized power variations that adjust power based on workload, and extended low-power mode intervals that extend energy saving time. These improvements result in a 25% increase in energy efficiency over the previous generation, extending the battery life of mobile devices and lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) by reducing the amount of energy consumed by servers processing data.
Validated with mobile application processor (AP) and mobile device vendors, 10.7 Gbps LPDDR5X is scheduled to begin mass production in the second half of this year.