{"id":21820,"date":"2018-07-26T00:40:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T04:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=21820"},"modified":"2019-06-18T19:26:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T23:26:13","slug":"samsung-begins-mass-producing-industrys-first-2nd-generation-10nm-class-16gb-lpddr4x-mobile-dram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/samsung-begins-mass-producing-industrys-first-2nd-generation-10nm-class-16gb-lpddr4x-mobile-dram\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Begins Mass Producing Industry\u2019s First 2nd-Generation 10nm-Class, 16Gb LPDDR4X Mobile DRAM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SEOUL, Korea \u2013 July 26, 2018 \u2013 Samsung Electronics<\/strong>, the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it has begun mass producing the industry\u2019s first 2nd-generation of 10-nanometer-class* (1y-nm), LPDDR4X (Low Power, Double Data Rate, 4X) DRAM to improve the efficiency and lower the battery drain of today\u2019s premium smartphones and other mobile applications.<\/p>\n

Compared to the mobile DRAM memory chips most used in current flagship mobile devices (1x-nm 16Gb LPDDR4X), the 2nd- generation LPDDR4X DRAM features up to a 10 percent power reduction while maintaining the same data rate of 4,266 megabits per second (Mb\/s).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe advent of 10nm-class mobile DRAM will enable significantly enhanced solutions for next-generation, flagship mobile devices that should first hit the market late this year or the first part of 2019.\u201d said Sewon Chun, senior vice president of Memory Sales & Marketing at Samsung Electronics<\/strong>. \u201cWe will continue to grow our premium DRAM lineup to lead the \u2018high-performance, high capacity, and low power\u2019 memory segment to meet the market demand and strengthen our business competitiveness.”<\/p>\n

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Samsung will be expanding its premium DRAM lineup based on the 1y-nm process by more than 70 percent. This initiative began with mass producing the first 10nm-class 8Gb DDR4 server DRAM last November and continues with this 16Gb LPDDR4X mobile memory chip only eight months later.<\/p>\n

Samsung said that it has created an 8GB LPDDR4X mobile DRAM package by combining four of the 10nm-class 16Gb LPDDR4X DRAM chips (16Gb=2GB). This four-channel package can realize a data rate of 34.1GB per second and its thickness has been reduced by more than 20 percent from the 1st-gen package, enabling OEMs to design slimmer yet more effective mobile devices.<\/p>\n

With its LPDDR4X advancements, Samsung will be rapidly expanding its share of mobile DRAM in the market by providing a variety of high-capacity products, including 4GB, 6GB and 8GB LPDDR4X packages.<\/p>\n

In line with its roll-out of 10nm-class LPDDR4X, Samsung has started operating a new DRAM production line in Pyeongtaek, Korea, to assure a stable supply of all mobile DRAM chips, in response to the increasing demand.<\/p>\n

TIMELINE: Samsung\u2019s Mass Production History of Mobile DRAM since 2012<\/strong>
\n2012.08 2GB 30nm-class 4Gb LPDDR3, 1600Mb\/s
\n2013.04 2GB 20nm-class (2y) 4Gb LPDDR3, 2133Mb\/s
\n2013.11 3GB 20nm-class (2y) 6Gb LPDDR3, 2133Mb\/s
\n2014.09 3GB 20nm-class (2z) 6Gb LPDDR3, 2133Mb\/s
\n2014.12 4GB 20nm-class (2z) 8Gb LPDDR4, 3200Mb\/s
\n2015.08 6GB 20nm-class (2z) 12Gb LPDDR4, 4266Mb\/s
\n2016.09 8GB 10nm-class (1x) 16Gb LPDDR4, 4266Mb\/s
\n2018.07 8GB 10nm-class (1y) 16Gb LPDDR4X, 4266Mb\/s
\n2018.07 Develops 10nm-class 8Gb LPDDR5, 6400Mb\/s<\/p>\n

*10nm-class denotes a process technology node somewhere between 10 and 19 nanometers.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SEOUL, Korea \u2013 July 26, 2018 \u2013 Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it has begun mass producing the industry\u2019s first 2nd-generation of 10-nanometer-class* (1y-nm), LPDDR4X (Low Power, Double Data Rate, 4X) DRAM to improve the efficiency and lower the battery drain of today\u2019s premium smartphones and other mobile […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":21825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29718,17557,29739],"tags":[589,757,84],"blue-badge":[],"class_list":["post-21820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product","category-semiconductor","category-product-semiconductor","tag-chip","tag-dram","tag-semiconductor"],"acf":{"turn_off_retargeting":false},"fimg_mobile_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/14110424\/Samsung-8GB-LPDDR4X-DRAM-Package.jpg","fimg_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/14110424\/Samsung-8GB-LPDDR4X-DRAM-Package.jpg","primary_category":{"term_id":29718,"name":"Product","slug":"product","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":29718,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":2447,"filter":"raw","term_link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/category\/product\/","term_path":"product"},"badge":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21820"},{"taxonomy":"blue-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blue-badge?post=21820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}