Samsung has announced today that it has developed the industry's first LPDDR5X DRAM which succeeds its previous LPDDR5 standard. The latter made it possible to build
16GB memory solutions for smartphones capable of delivering 5.5Gbps of data. Other higher-end devices, like laptops based on Intel's 12th gen
Alder Lake-P mobile CPUs, may even support higher speeds of 6.4Gbps, which is the fastest LPDDR5 memory of Samsung is currently capable of running at.
LPDDR5X will boost this speed by around 30% taking it up to 8.5Gbps. While that's a decent bump-up, it pales in comparison to the astonishing four times increase in the capacity that LPDDR5X brings, which is stated at being 64GB. Samsung says that it will be made possible using its 14nm 16Gb (2GB) LPDDR5X chips which will likely be developed using some form of
UFS-based Multi-chip package (uMCP) technology. Currently, the company a uses UFS 3.1-based solution for LPDDR5 so it's possible that the next-gen UFS will be used for LPDDR5X.
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