Samsung announces mass production of new 12GB mobile DRAM

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/15/2019 08:46 AM | source: | 7 comment(s)

Samsung announced the start of mass production of new 12GB mobile DRAM to be built into high-end smart phones featuring advanced technologies such as 5G, foldable displays and multiple cameras.

The latest generation of smartphones is literally popping ahead with innovative new features: displays are folded, 5G modems promise lightning-fast connections, and the fingerprint moves under the display to clear the back for an ever-expanding number of camera lenses. Samsung ranks high on the next-gen wave with its own Galaxy S10 devices, alongside Huawei, Xiaomi and Co., so it's little wonder that the South Korean manufacturer now provides the hardware needed for such powerful features.

In order for smartphones to realize the full potential of high-end technologies, Samsung has now begun mass production of 12GB mobile DRAM. This memory size, which is enormous for a smartphone, was made possible by merging six 16 Gbit LPDDR4X chips into a single package. The second generation of 10 nm technology is used, which should enable transfer rates of 34.1 GB per second with reduced power consumption and also leaves more room for a larger battery.

To meet rising demand in the face of upcoming top smartphones, Samsung also plans to triple its current 8GB and 12GB DRAM mobile device inventory in the second half of 2019. Incidentally, a device already available with 12 GB of RAM is the maximum configuration of the Samsung Galaxy S10 + with 1 terabyte ROM.

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#5650113 Posted on: 03/15/2019 08:50 AM

The IoT era is here.

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#5650495 Posted on: 03/15/2019 11:44 PM

keep increasing the RAM as long its easy+cheap to produce

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#5650502 Posted on: 03/16/2019 12:05 AM

Last word in article kind of rubs me wrong way... "ROM"

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#5650563 Posted on: 03/16/2019 04:47 AM

Last word in article kind of rubs me wrong way... "ROM"

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#5650746 Posted on: 03/16/2019 07:20 PM

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#5651141 Posted on: 03/18/2019 12:38 PM

lol I had the tab open since yesterday and just checked it now and ROM didn't sit right with me either and then I scroll down and saw your comment.

I guess most by now, we are too used to saying/using "storage" instead. :p

ROM is just flat-out wrong, since it stands for "Read Only Memory", which is something like your BIOS chip on your mainboard, which is typically only ever read. Yes, it can be flashed, but only with difficulty. Its not written to in normal operation.
So calling the typical flash-based storage in a phone "ROM" is just factually wrong.

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#5651911 Posted on: 03/20/2019 03:22 AM

The BIOS chip still isn't just ROM. ROM would be a CD or DVD that isn't re-writable. BIOS chips are EPROM, Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory. But the point is, the Samsung phones aren't coming with a 1TB ROM.

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