SK hynix debuts 'world's fastest mobile DRAM', predicts it will move to power AI/ML and AR/VR - The Register

South Korean representation shaper SK hynix announced contiguous it has delivered samples of what it claims is the world's fastest mobile DRAM, and expressed its content it volition yet beryllium utilized successful much applications.

The Low Power Double Data Rate 5 Turbo, oregon LPDDR5T, is 13 percent faster than the LPDDR5X the spot store revealed past November – frankincense the connection "turbo" appended to its name. The turbo mentation tops retired astatine 9.6Gbit/sec connected a 10nm process, compared to the erstwhile iteration's 8.5Gbit/sec connected a 12nm process.

According to SK hynix's canned statement, a 16GB multi-chip bundle – specified arsenic those fixed retired arsenic samples – tin process 77GB of information per second, oregon 15 full-HD movies successful 1 second. Somewhat less if immoderate of them are Avatar.

Following JEDEC guidelines, LPDDR5T operates betwixt 1.01 and 1.12V, surviving up to expectations of being some speedy and requiring impressively small vigor to operate.

Like its predecessor, the DRAM merchandise was processed utilizing High-K Metal Gate (HKMG), which is meant to forestall existent leakage and amended capacitance. SK hynix is the archetypal representation shaper to usage the process successful a mobile product.

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SK hynix plans to statesman wide accumulation of the merchandise utilizing its precocious 10nm process – called 1anm – successful the 2nd fractional of 2023. Its selling for the merchandise implies hopes that it volition yet determination from mobile devices to different workloads – astatine slightest until LPDDR56 dedicated to those tasks emerges.

"The IT manufacture forecasts an expanding request for representation chips with precocious specifications arsenic the 5G smartphone marketplace expands further. In this trend, SK hynix expects the exertion of LPDDR5T to grow beyond smartphones to artificial quality (AI), instrumentality learning and augmented/virtual world (AR/VR)," explained a spokesperson.

Top products from competitors similar Samsung and Micron inactive conscionable the lesser LPDDR5X spec.

Samsung said its LPDDR5X with its 8.5Gbit/sec speed, released past November, is besides suitable for AI and adjacent automobiles. Micron released samples of its LPDDR5X, besides 8.5Gbit/sec, astir the aforesaid time.

SK hynix experienced profit nosedive astatine the extremity of 2023 arsenic it awaited the debut of 238-layer RAM products that are expected to crook things astir sometime this year. With not 1 but 2 caller DRAMs retired since its disastrous Q3 net call, the announcement of 238-layer products could crook the profitability tide. ®