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In February, Samsung began mass-producing very fast 10nm 16GB modules of LPDDR5 mobile DRAM chips. This week, those chips now look sluggish thanks to Samsung’s switch to a third-generation production line that uses extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology.
Samsung announced that it is now mass-producing the memory industry’s first 16Gb LPDDR5 mobile DRAM modules using EUV in the world’s largest semiconductor line. The modules are manufactured on a second production line in Pyeongtaek, Korea. Line 2 spans an area the size of 16 football fields (over 1.3 million square feet) and uses Samsung’s most advanced process node (1z) to produce the 10nm chips.
Samsung already offered the fastest 16GB memory modules for phones, which when introduced in February boasted data transfer speeds of 5,500MB / s. However, the third-generation chips boast a performance gain of 16 percent and run at 6,400 Mb / s. Samsung says that it is fast enough to transfer more than 50GB of data in one second. Not only that, but the 1z process means that the LPDDR5 chip pack is 30 percent thinner, giving smartphone and tablet makers a bit more room to play games inside their already very small devices.
With such a huge production line already producing these new chips, Samsung is confident that they will appear in many flagship mobile devices next year. However, such is the scale of production, Samsung is also targeting the automotive industry and intends to produce LPDDR5 chips that meet the strict standards of operating temperature and reliability required for use in vehicles.
