Samsung develops first 8-gigabit LPDDR4 4GB mobile DRAM

December 30, 2013

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2012 was the year for 2GB mobile DRAM, 2013 was the year for 3GB, and I think you can guess what 2014 will be. That's right, 4GB. Samsung has announced the development of the first 8 gigabit, low power double data rate 4 (LPDDR4) mobile DRAM. It's fabricated on 20-nanometer class process technology and has 1 gigabyte on a single die, making it the largest density available for DRAM components today. What can you expect from this? Well of course better performance. We should get 50% higher performance over LPDDR3 (3GB) and it will do it with 40% less energy.

I would imagine we will see LPDDR4 in at least the Galaxy S 5 and Galaxy Note 4. We may even find it in one of their shiny new tablets that will be unveiled soon.

source: Samsung Tomorrow

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Robert lives in upstate New York where he was born and raised. Technology was always his passion. His first computer was a Radio Shack TRS80 Color that used a cassette tape to save programs, and his first laptop was a Toshiba T1200FB that sported a CGA greyscale screen and two 720kb floppy drives (no hardrive). From the early 90’s through late 2011, he only owned Motorola phones starting with the MircroTAC all the way through to the Droid X. He broke that streak when he bought the Galaxy Nexus. Now he's sporting a Galaxy Note 4, and absolutely loves it. He has a wonderful wife and a 6 year old son. In his free time he enjoys sports, movies, TV, working out, and trying to keep up with the rapid fast world of technology.