Samsung's Next-Gen RAM For Phones And Metaverse Is Here

Samsung Electronics has become the latest company to announce its next-gen RAM for phones and the metaverse.

Samsung's Next-Gen RAM For Phones And Metaverse Is Here

New Delhi: As the heat in the metaverse space heats up, Samsung Electronics has become the latest company to announce its next-gen RAM for phones and the metaverse. Samsung announced the industry’s first 14-nanometer (nm) based 16-GB Low Power Double Data Rate 5X (LPDDR5X) DRAM, which is designed to drive growth throughout the high-speed data service applications including 5G, artificial intelligence (AI) and the metaverse.

The LPDDR5X DRAM will provide over 1.3x faster processing speeds and consume nearly 20 per cent less power than the previous LPDDR5 solution. Samsung will begin collaborating with global chipset manufacturers later this year, to establish a more viable framework for the expanding world of digital reality, with its LPDDR5X serving as a key part of that foundation.

“In recent years, hyperconnected market segments such as AI, augmented reality (AR) and the metaverse, which rely on extremely fast large-scale data processing, have been rapidly expanding,” SangJoon Hwang, Senior Vice President and Head of the DRAM Design Team at Samsung Electronics, said in a statement.

“Our LPDDR5X will broaden the use of high-performance, low-power memory beyond smartphones and bring new capabilities to AI-based edge applications like servers and even automobiles," Hwang added.

The South Korean tech giant will also aim at broadening its pacesetting mobile DRAM lineup with improvements in performance and power efficiency, while also reinforcing its market leadership with greater manufacturing agility.

The new LPDDR5X is a next-generation mobile DRAM designed to significantly boost speed, capacity and power savings for future 5G applications. In 2018, Samsung had announced the industry’s first 8GB LPDDR5 DRAM.