Samsung claims that it’s managed to develop a new type of memory for smartphones and tablets with ultra-wide bandwidth, called the LPDDR2 (Low Power Double Data Rate 2) RAM. The new LPDDR2 RAM increases bandwidth by increasing the number of pins on the chip from 32 to 512 (16 times larger). This gives it 8 times of more memory bandwidth from 1.6GB per second of a regular mobile DDR memory to 12.8 GB per second of the ultra-wide bandwidth. It’s also equivalent to 4 times wider than everyday LPDDR2.
Not only the new mobile LPDDR2 increases the performance, it even reduces the consumption of power by as much as 87 percent, according to Samsung. The new mobile memory will first come in the form of a one-gigabit (128MB) chip made on a 50nm process. Samsung has not announced when the new chips will ship. It also has long-term plans to produce four gigabit (512MB) chip, based on the ultra wide bandwidth technology and 20nm process, arriving sometime in 2013.
With these ultra-wide bandwidth chips, you’ll surely see more powerful smartphones and tablets surfacing in the next few years. Apart from Samsung itself, one of the largest single customers of mobile memory is Apple for its iPhone, iPad and iPod.
via electronista
February 21st, 2011 at 5:10 am
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