Samsung announces industry-first LPDDR5X RAM aimed at 5G, AI, and metaverse

Samsung Electronics has announced the development of the industry’s first LPDDR5X RAM. The Low Power Double Data Rate 5X DRAM is based on a 14nm process, and is designed to drive further growth in high-speed data applications, such as 5G, AI, and the metaverse.

Samsung says that the LPDDR5X RAM will broaden the use of high-performance and low-power memory beyond smartphones, and bring new capabilities to AI-based tech like servers or automobiles.

According to Samsung, the LPDDR5X is a next-generation mobile DRAM designed to significantly boost speed, capacity and power savings for future 5G applications.

The LPDDR5X DRAM will offer data processing speeds of up to 8.5Gbps, over 1.3 times faster than the previous generation LPDDR5’s 6.4Gbps. It will also consume 20% less power than LPDDR5 memory. The standard also supports up to 64GB memory on a single chip.

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It is speculated that Samsung could debut the new LPDDR5X RAM in its Galaxy S22 series of smartphones. The Galaxy S22 series is also rumoured to feature Samsung’s new Exynos 2200 SoC, which will feature a superior AMD Radeon graphics chip with support for ray-tracing.