Samsung's mass production of 12Gb LPDDR5 DRAM is 1.3 times faster than LPDDR4X

South Korea's Samsung official announced on the 18th that it will mass produce the world's first 12GbLPDDR5 DRAM. The DRAM is optimized for 5G and AI functions in future smartphones. In addition, Samsung also plans to start mass production of 12Gb LPDDR5 modules at the end of this month, each module contains 8 12Gb chips, totaling 96Gb capacity, so as to meet the demand for higher mobile phone performance and capacity of high-end smartphone manufacturers. .

According to Samsung, the new 12GbLPDDR5 DRAM with the second-generation 10nm process has a transfer speed of 5,500 Mbps, which is 1.3 times that of the existing LPDDR4X (4266 Mbps). That is, it can process 44GB of data in about 1 second, about 3.7GB each, and the total amount of 12 high-definition movies.

Samsung also pointed out that after the mass production of 12GbLPDDR5 DRAM, 16Gb of LPDDR5 DRAM particles will be mass produced in 2020. Therefore, it is very likely that modules of the 16GbLPDDR5 specification will appear in the future. Samsung further pointed out that with its leading speed and energy efficiency in the industry, Samsung's new mobile DRAM enables the next generation of high-end smartphones to fully utilize the functions of 5G and AI, including high-definition image recording and machine learning functions. The battery life.

In addition, with a new circuit design, enhanced clock speed, and low power consumption, the new generation of DRAM can achieve 30% lower energy consumption than the previous generation. Moreover, at very fast transmission rates, long-term stability of performance can be ensured.

Although DRAM has always been an important source of profit for Samsung Electronics, Samsung’s profit in the second quarter of 2019 will fall by as much as 56% from the same period in 2018 due to factors such as falling DRAM market prices. Under the impact of the Korean trade war, Samsung’s memory business will have more uncertainties in the future.

In order to maintain the competitive advantage in the memory market, in addition to the high-tech raw materials that are restricted in the Japanese-Korean trade war, we are actively looking for alternatives, and through our own technical strength, continue to develop a new generation of DRAM to expand and compete. The gap between the people.