Smartphone with Samsung Electronics 16GB Mobile DRAM, Gaming PC-Level Performance

Samsung Electronics Opens Era of 16GB Mobile DRAM with Record-Breaking Speed
Performance Up About 30% Compared to Existing 8GB LPDDR4X, Double Capacity, 20% Lower Power Consumption

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyewon] Samsung Electronics has become the first in the world to open the era of 16GB LPDDR5 mobile DRAM, achieving the highest speed and largest capacity ever.

On the 25th, Samsung Electronics announced that it has begun full-scale mass production of 16GB LPDDR5 mobile DRAM, which offers about 30% better performance and double the capacity compared to the existing 8GB LPDDR4X.

Following the world's first introduction of 12GB LPDDR5 mobile DRAM in July last year, Samsung has established a mass production system for the industry's only 16GB mobile DRAM within five months. With this, Samsung Electronics has built a full lineup of LPDDR5 mobile DRAMs ranging from 8GB and 12GB to 16GB.

The 16GB mobile DRAM package includes eight 12Gb chips manufactured with the 2nd generation 10nm-class (1y) process and four 8Gb chips. It achieves a speed of 5500Mb/s, about 1.3 times faster than high-end smartphone mobile DRAM (LPDDR4X·4266Mb/s), enabling the processing of 44GB of data?the equivalent of about nine full HD movies (5GB each)?in just one second. While doubling the capacity compared to the existing 8GB LPDDR4X package, power consumption has been reduced by more than 20%.

This is especially good news for consumers who enjoy gaming on smartphones. The 16GB DRAM has twice the capacity of the 8GB DRAM mainly used in professional laptops and gaming PCs, allowing users to see and react to distant targets faster in survival shooting games, providing flagship smartphones with console-level gaming performance. Additionally, when consumers play 8K UHD ultra-high-resolution mirrored VR games, they can move characters with clear image quality, helping them enjoy immersive visuals.

Samsung Electronics plans to secure the next-generation flagship smartphone market with the mass production of the 16GB LPDDR5 package. Choi Cheol, Vice President of the Memory Business Division's Strategy and Marketing Office at Samsung Electronics, said, "By providing the industry's highest-performance mobile solution, we can deliver amazing satisfaction to next-generation flagship smartphone users," adding, "We will respond smoothly to the expanding global customer demand by offering a new lineup with next-generation processes within this year."

Samsung Electronics is mass-producing LPDDR5 mobile DRAM at its latest line in the Pyeongtaek Campus, and in the second half of this year, it aims to aggressively target the flagship mobile, high-end PC, and automotive markets by mass-producing 16Gb LPDDR5 with 1.5 times faster speed than before using the 3rd generation 10nm-class process, in line with the development of 6400Mbps operating application processors (APs).

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