Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 4 to Feature Chips with 4GB RAM
Samsung's 2014 flagships the Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 4 could end up featuring chips with 4GB RAM.
This week the company announced the development of the industry's first 8GB LPDDR4 mobile DRAM chip which is denser, faster, and more energy efficient than any of the products currently found on the market.
The new memory chip is built on a 20-nm class process which allows manufacturers to reach a capacity of 1GB of RAM on a single die. Smartphone makers will be able to give their devices 4GB of RAM by combining four of these chips.
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They will make appearances on future high-end smartphones, tablets, and notebooks that have higher density displays. Both the Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy S5 are expected to feature WQHD screens with 2560x1440 pixels. 4GB of RAM will certainly help to power these displays and run apps smoothly.
Samsung is also able to shrink the size of this immensely powerful chip by using smaller circuitry and with LPDDR4 technology. It is also faster and consumes less energy than LPDDR3 chips. The company stated that the new memory provides 50 percent higher performance that the fastest LPDDR3 or DDR3 chips currently available. Energy consumption is reduced significantly while data transfer speed is increased.
The Galaxy S5 is expected to launch in the beginning of next year so it might be released a little too soon for Samsung to use this component. The Galaxy Note 4 on the other hand might be just the right device to introduce this type of RAM on as the current model already features 3GB.
The next-gen smartphones on Samsung are expected to come with WQHD screens that could possibly be curved, new metal exteriors, and 64-bit computing chips.
