Samsung Steps Up Its Memory Game

• Tyler Miller
• 13 years ago

The world of Samsung isn’t all broken promises of Android upgrades, they are also major players in the semiconductor business.

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]