Samsung develops industry’s first LPDDR5X DRAM

Samsung Electronics has developed the industry’s first 14-nanometer (nm) based 16-gigabit (Gb) Low Power Double Data Rate 5X (LPDDR5X) DRAM.

It is designed specifically to enhance growth throughout high-speed data service applications such as artificial intelligence (AI), 5G technology, and the metaverse, the global tech giant said in a press release on Tuesday.  

According to the release, the LPDDR5X is a next-generation mobile DRAM that has been created to significantly boost speed, capacity, and power savings for future 5G applications.

It will provide data processing speeds of up to 8.5 gigabits per second (Gbps), which are over 1.3 times faster than LPDDR5’s 6.4 Gbps. Leveraging the industry’s most advanced 14nm DRAM process technology, it will use around 20 percent less power than LPDDR5 memory, the release added.  

Apart from that, the 16Gb LPDDR5X chip will enable up to 64 gigabytes (GB) per memory package.