Samsung’s Upcoming LPDDR4 Can Store 1GB on a Single Die

Samsung has today announced the development of LPDDR4 DRAM that can store 8Gb (1GB) on a single die. This paves the way for mobile devices that can store more than 2GB of memory, which is the kind of progression we’d expect to see in the next couple of years. At the moment, even 2GB models are a bit scarce, but they’re catching on – especially with the advent of 64-bit mobile SoCs.

Compared to its previous-generation, Samsung’s LPDDR4 (low-powered double-data rate) DRAM is touted as offering 50% more performance while proving 40% more power-efficient – two directions we love to see. This LPDDR4 is built-upon a 20nm “class” (another way of saying “more or less”) process.

With the new chip, Samsung will focus on the premium mobile market including large screen UHD smartphones, tablets and ultra-slim notebooks that offer four times the resolution of full-HD imaging, and also on high-performance network systems.

When we’ll begin to see these chips in our mobile devices, we’re not sure, but given the fact that Samsung’s own flagship Exynos SoC doesn’t currently support DDR4, it’s likely we won’t see it until late 2014 or into 2015. That is, unless Samsung has a big announcement to make at CES. Cue the mystery music.