The predecessor, LPDDR5, introduced in February 2019, marked a notable advancement with a 50% increase in performance and a 30% improvement in power efficiency compared to the LPDDR4 standard. Currently, industry leaders like Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are advancing this technology through LPDDR5X and LPDDR5T variants, focusing on marginal enhancements.

The development and standardization efforts for LPDDR6 primarily aim to reduce power consumption while boosting data processing capabilities. This is crucial for supporting advanced applications such as on-device artificial intelligence (AI), which requires extensive computational power for tasks like large-scale AI computations. This shift towards on-device AI processing is expected to become prevalent across smartphones, laptops, and tablet PCs.

While speculative discussions suggest a potential introduction of LPDDR6 support with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset by the latter half of the current year, a more conservative outlook anticipates the commercial availability of LPDDR6-equipped devices towards the end of 2025 or the beginning of 2026.