Samsung might make the bulk of RAM found in smartphones and tablets, but there are other companies out there, with the most important being SK Hynix. Today they’ve announced a “world’s first” technology, an 8 Gb LPDDR3 memory chip.
Breaking things down, LPDDR3 is currently the fastest form of mobile DRAM. It’s used in high end devices like the Samsung Galaxy S4. Samsung published a press release back in April saying they were the “world’s first” company to make 4 Gb LPDDR3 memory chips. Now since high end devices typically have 2 GB of RAM, that means you need to stack four 4 Gb chips on top of each other. With these new SK Hynix chips, since they’re twice the size in terms of capacity, that means you can expect to see 4 GB smartphones. When? The press release says this: Both the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy S4 shipped with 2 GB of RAM. The Galaxy S5 might very well be the first 4 GB smartphone we’ll see on the market when it launches next spring. At least I hope.
