Samsung Enabling 1GB, 2GB RAM in Mobile Phones and Tablets Soon
Quentyn Kennemer
Samsung’s always in the news when it comes to innovation. Today’s feat sees them bringing the industry’s first “monolithic” four gigabit LPDDR2 RAM module, with several configurations being sampled right now: an 8 Gigabit chip that would afford you 1GB of RAM by stacking two 4 Gigabit chips, and a 16 Gigabit chip that would give you 2GB of RAM by stacking four 4 Gigabit chips. As for that 4 Gigabit chip – it probably still maxes out at 512 MB, but you’ll get more than double the industry’s current data transfer rate clocking in at 1,066 Megabits per second. All of this is done on a 30nm fabrication so it’ll be even more efficient on battery life than current chips. While it’s unlikely we’ll see anything more than 512MB-1GB pushed into a phone with these types of chips, I can imagine tablet manufacturers are licking their chops. [via Samsung Hub]
