A few years ago, Samsung introduced 8.5Gbps LPDDR5X RAM, which was the world's fastest at the time. The technology continues to advance and today the company announced its even faster LPDDR5X.
Operating at 10.7Gbps, it beats the 9.6Gbps LPDDR5T variant that SK Hynix introduced last year. This represents a 25% increase in performance compared to the previous X variant, but speed isn't the only upgrade.
Samsung builds these chips on a 12nm class process. This means the chips are smaller. This allowed the company to increase capacity by 30%, which he is currently using to build 32 GB packages.
Of course, this product is advertised for AI applications. If you're a regular reader of this topic, you know that large models require a lot of memory. Even a top-of-the-line GPU like the Nvidia RTX 4090 has a limit to what it can do with its 24 GB of VRAM. Nvidia offers professional cards with more VRAM, but I don't want to know the price.
Anyway, this is not the end. With new power-saving technology, the new LPDDR5X chip reduces power usage by 25% and can enter low-power mode for extended periods of time. This is a boon not only for battery-powered mobile devices, but also for servers (electricity costs make up a large part of a server's running costs).
Samsung plans to start mass production of 10.7Gbps LPDDR5X RAM by the second half of this year, pending testing on mobile chipsets. The company is also working on the next generation of his LPDDR6 RAM.
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