U.S. memory chip maker Micron ships latest DRAM chip to smartphone partners - Yahoo Finance

(Reuters) - U.S.-based representation spot shaper Micron Technology Inc connected Tuesday said it started shipping samples of its astir precocious DRAM spot based connected the LPDDR5X, low-power treble information complaint 5X, modular to smartphone makers to trial out.

The latest DRAM spot was made utilizing Micron’s astir cutting-edge manufacturing technology, referred to arsenic 1-beta. The institution ships its LPDDR5X DRAM spot manufactured with its 1-alpha exertion successful measurement currently, and said the caller 1-beta spot has 15% amended powerfulness ratio implicit the older mentation arsenic good arsenic a 35% betterment connected the fig of bits stored per area.

DRAM chips are representation chips that suffer the representation erstwhile the powerfulness is off, portion NAND chips store representation careless of power.

The 1-beta manufacturing exertion further shrinks the 1-alpha technology, though Micron didn’t accidental by however much. Chip making has evolved to acceptable much and much transistors connected a acceptable country of silicon, which for decades has brought down the outgo per representation and vigor depletion - though immoderate limits are starting to emerge.

Micron said it was capable to get to the 1-beta manufacturing exertion without utilizing the costly utmost ultraviolet, oregon EUV, lithography tools, which are utilized successful the latest processor chips successful top-end smartphones.

Thy Tran, vice president of DRAM Process Integration astatine Micron, said the caller DRAM volition beryllium manufactured archetypal successful Micron’s works successful Hiroshima, Japan, and aboriginal astatine different high-volume manufacturing sites, including Taiwan.

(Reporting By Jane Lanhee Lee; Editing by Leslie Adler)