Despite the downturn in the memory market, Samsung Electronics, which holds the unrivaled number one position in the DRAM market, has not rested in its technological development.

Samsung Electronics announced on the 18th that it has achieved the industry's highest operating speed of 8.5Gbps with its latest LPDDR5X DRAM. The latest LPDDR5X DRAM was manufactured on a 14nm basis using EUV (extreme ultraviolet) technology on Qualcomm's latest platform and verified an operating speed of 8.5Gbps.

Five months after verifying 7.5Gbps in collaboration with Qualcomm last March, Samsung Electronics has achieved 8.5Gbps, enabling it to expand the adoption range of LPDDR5X DRAM beyond mobile devices to various applications. The 8.5Gbps operating speed of Samsung Electronics' LPDDR5X DRAM is 1.3 times faster than the 6.4Gbps operating speed of the previous generation LPDDR5, and it incorporates core circuit design technologies such as 'High-Speed I/O Signal Enhancement Design,' which minimizes the impact of noise on communication signals between the memory and the mobile AP.

LPDDR DRAM, which boasts the strengths of 'low power' and 'high performance,' is growing rapidly beyond the mobile market into various fields such as servers, high-performance computing (HPC), and automotive, and the market is expected to expand further into artificial intelligence (AI) and the metaverse in the future.

Recently, the PC market has been demanding memory with small package sizes, high performance, and low power consumption, leading to an increase in the adoption of LPDDR DRAM. Similarly, in the server market, such as data centers, adopting LPDDR DRAM can reduce the power and energy required for data processing, thereby lowering the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

In addition, as the rapid processing of large volumes of data collected through sensors becomes increasingly important, LPDDR DRAM is also attracting attention in the automotive sector.

Lee Dong-ki, Executive Vice President of the Product Planning Team at Samsung Electronics' Memory Business Division, stated, "Through cooperation with Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics has achieved the industry's highest operating speed for LPDDR5X DRAM and ultra-high"We have been able to advance the popularization of the mobile interface by more than a year," they said, adding, "Samsung Electronics will actively work to expand the ultra-high-speed memory market through technological cooperation between memory and mobile APs, including strengthening technological cooperation with Qualcomm regarding next-generation memory standards."

"We are striving to lead the way in enabling and adopting the latest memory performance on the Snapdragon mobile platform," said Ziad Asghar, Vice President of Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies. "By implementing the latest LPDDR5X at 8.5Gbps on the Snapdragon mobile platform for the first time in the mobile industry, we will enhance the user experience with new features and improved performance for mobile, gaming, camera, and AI applications."

Meanwhile, Samsung Electronics' latest 'GDDR6 DRAM' is known to achieve the industry's highest speed of '24Gbps' in the 16Gb product, capable of processing up to 1.1TB of data per second. This is a speed capable of processing 275 Full HD movies in just one second.