Samsung today announced the launch of its new DRAM chip for PC. It’s faster and smaller than its predecessor. The company says that it has now started mass producing the industry’s first 10nm class 8-gigabit DDR4 DRAM. The chip can be used in a wide range of computing systems. Samsung claims that it offers the highest performance and energy efficiency for an 8Gb DRAM chip.
Samsung launched the previous generation about a year and a half back. It says that the latest DRAM chip is 15 percent more power efficient and 10 percent faster than its predecessor.
The company also touts an approximate 30 percent productivity gain over its previous chip. What that means is that the production yields have increased which will enable the company to build more of these chips in the same time.
The new advanced proprietary circuit design enables the 8Gb DDR4 chip to operate at 3,600 megabits per second (Mbps) per pin. That’s a good improvement compared to 3,200 Mbps of the predecessor.
The company hasn’t relied on a new process to make the RAM smaller. It’s relying on new technology to make that happen. There’s more efficient error checking as well as a progressive “air spacer” scheme which enables a higher level of scaling and rapid cell operation.
Samsung has also said that it’s accelerating its plans for “much faster introductions” of next-generation DRAM chips and systems which include DDR5, HBM3, LPDDR5, and GDDR6.
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