Samsung Steps Up Its Memory Game
The Seoul based company has announced that it’s sampling and testing the first monolithic four gigabit LPDDR2 (low power double-data-rate 2) DRAM, which are intended to be used in tablets and smartphones. It’s a mouthful, I know, but good times are ahead.
These new chips are capable of data transfers up to 1,066 Mbps; which brings data transfers nearer to what we see from our desktop computers. For those of you keeping score that is more than double the speeds that are a part of the industry’s previous standard, which topped out at 400 Mbps. It’s also a little thinner, a mere .8mm as opposed to 1mm. On top of everything else, these new chips will consume 25% less power than their predecessors.
Compressing the previous paragraph into one sentence and you get: Smaller, lighter and longer battery life. Boom, baby.
So, are we ready to pull Samsung off of our holiday card list yet?
[via IntoMobile | Business Wire]