Tuesday, April 16th 2024
Samsung Develops Industry's Fastest 10.7Gbps LPDDR5X DRAM
Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it has developed the industry's first LPDDR5X DRAM supporting the industry's highest performance of up to 10.7 gigabits-per-second (Gbps). Leveraging 12 nanometer (nm)-class process technology, Samsung has achieved the smallest chip size among existing LPDDRs, solidifying its technological leadership in the low-power DRAM market.
"As demand for low-power, high-performance memory increases, LPDDR DRAM is expected to expand its applications from mainly mobile to other areas that traditionally require higher performance and reliability such as PCs, accelerators, servers and automobiles," said YongCheol Bae, Executive Vice President of Memory Product Planning of the Memory Business at Samsung Electronics. "Samsung will continue to innovate and deliver optimized products for the upcoming on-device AI era through close collaboration with customers." With the surge in AI applications, on-device AI, which enables direct processing on devices, is becoming increasingly crucial, underscoring 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 single package capacity of mobile DRAM up to 32-gigabytes (GB), making it an optimal solution for the on-device AI era that requires high-performance, high-capacity and low-power memory.
In particular, the LPDDR5X incorporates specialized power-saving technologies such as optimized power variation that adjusts power according to workload and expanded low-power mode intervals which extend energy-saving periods. These improvements enhance power efficiency by 25% over the previous generation, enabling mobile devices to provide longer battery life and allowing servers to minimize total cost of ownership (TCO) by lowering energy usage when processing data.
Mass production of the 10.7 Gbps LPDDR5X is scheduled to begin by the second half of the year, following verification with mobile application processor (AP) and mobile device providers.
"As demand for low-power, high-performance memory increases, LPDDR DRAM is expected to expand its applications from mainly mobile to other areas that traditionally require higher performance and reliability such as PCs, accelerators, servers and automobiles," said YongCheol Bae, Executive Vice President of Memory Product Planning of the Memory Business at Samsung Electronics. "Samsung will continue to innovate and deliver optimized products for the upcoming on-device AI era through close collaboration with customers." With the surge in AI applications, on-device AI, which enables direct processing on devices, is becoming increasingly crucial, underscoring the need for low-power, high-performance LPDDR memory.
In particular, the LPDDR5X incorporates specialized power-saving technologies such as optimized power variation that adjusts power according to workload and expanded low-power mode intervals which extend energy-saving periods. These improvements enhance power efficiency by 25% over the previous generation, enabling mobile devices to provide longer battery life and allowing servers to minimize total cost of ownership (TCO) by lowering energy usage when processing data.
Mass production of the 10.7 Gbps LPDDR5X is scheduled to begin by the second half of the year, following verification with mobile application processor (AP) and mobile device providers.
16 Comments on Samsung Develops Industry's Fastest 10.7Gbps LPDDR5X DRAM
171.2GB/s on a 128bit arrangement would certainly help those 16 CUs.
"DRAM featuring 3D transistors has been discussed for years, but actual makers of memory have refrained from making any real announcements on the matter. However, Samsung decided to break the silence at Memcom last week and revealed some of its plans concerning 3D DRAM. As it turns out, the first 3D DRAM node is just a few years away. "
Samsung seems to have constant yield issue problem with their chips - both compute and memory.
They announce these way in advance and these either don't pan put and are quietly shelved and never used or it takes a long time before they reach respectable yields.
www.gsmarena.com/mediatek_dimensity_9300_announced_with_bigcore_only_cpu_boosted_gpu_with_raytracing-news-60488.php
www.gsmarena.com/vivo_x100_pro-review-2645p4.php
www.techpowerup.com/315666/sk-hynix-announces-production-lpddr5t-worlds-fastest-mobile-memory-standard
www.techpowerup.com/318440/sk-hynix-to-show-off-its-gddr7-48gb-16-layer-hbm3e-stacks-and-lpddr5t-10533-memory-at-ieee-sscc
They'll probably match top end LPDDR5x before long.
"The memory maker says that usage of FOWLP packaging allows for the reduction of the thickness of GDDR6W packaging to 0.7 mm, down from 1.1 mm in the case of standard GDDR6 chips, making it easier to cool them down. While common sense says that FOWLP packaging is more expensive than traditional BGA packaging, it is unclear how significantly the former is more costly than the latter. "
Micron 9600MT's LPDDR5X
www.micron.com/products/memory/dram-components/lpddr5x/part-catalog
Maybe they're waiting for more
handouts"aid" from the US govt o_OI've also not seen any other QC mobile SoC with 9600 MT/s speeds using LPDDR5x & IIRC Dimensity 9300 uses LPDDR5T almost(?) exclusively.
semiconductor.samsung.com/dram/gddr/gddr6/k4zaf325bc-sc24/
24Gbps GDDR6. Nearly two years ago. Sampling back then. Sampling today. I very much doubt AMD/Nvidia/Intel have been evaluating this for nearly two years without a product in sight. My conclusion is that Samsung is full of BS and no one is sampling either 24Gbps or faster GDDR6W. Vaporware.
The highest speed Samsung actually has in mass production is 20Gbps if their website is to be believed.