It’s not by accident that Samsung is preparing to both announce a new Exynos chipset, and just unveiled “industry’s first LPDDR5X DRAM” that is also scheduled to go into phones. The mass Galaxy S22 series production is fast approaching, and Samsung has penchant for announcing the silicon in its gear before it has been made official in retail devices.
Samsung LPDDR5X DRAM specs and features
While real-life tests on computer DDR5 RAM show that for now it only gives advantage if you do complex tasks like gaming and rendering simultaneously, Samsung promises that the mobile LPDDR5X DRAM will “boost speed, capacity and power savings for future 5G applications.”
It’s 30% faster than the current LPDDR5 memory, and consumes 20% less power as it is done on a 14nm process. The 16Gb LPDDR5X chips can be stacked in up to 64GB RAM configurations, though we doubt there will soon be phones that will need as much memory for tasks we currently use them for.
