Industry’s first LPDDR5 uMCP to be mass produced and deployed throughout mid- to high-end smartphones, beginning this month
Samsung uMCP combines LPDDR5 reminiscence and UFS 3.1 NAND storage, offering trade’s highest efficiency, capability and effectivity to make 5G performance accessible to many smartphone customers
Samsung Electronics, the world chief in superior reminiscence expertise, as we speak introduced that it has begun mass producing its newest smartphone reminiscence answer, the LPDDR5 UFS-based multichip bundle (uMCP). Samsung’s uMCP integrates the quickest LPDDR5 DRAM with the newest UFS 3.1 NAND flash, delivering flagship-level efficiency to a much wider vary of smartphone customers.
“Samsung’s new LPDDR5 uMCP is built upon our rich legacy of memory advancements and packaging know-how, enabling consumers to enjoy uninterrupted streaming, gaming and mixed reality experiences even in lower-tier devices,” mentioned Young-soo Sohn, vp of the Memory Product Planning Team at Samsung Electronics. “As 5G-compatible devices become more mainstream, we anticipate that our latest multichip package innovation will accelerate the market transition to 5G and beyond, and help to bring the metaverse into our everyday lives a lot faster.”
Based on the newest cellular DRAM and NAND interfaces, Samsung’s uMCP can ship lightning-fast velocity and excessive storage capability at very low energy. This mixture will permit extra customers to immerse themselves in quite a few 5G purposes that had been beforehand solely accessible on premium flagship fashions, together with superior images, graphics-intensive gaming and augmented actuality (AR). Such flagship-level capabilities are made doable by an almost 50% enchancment in DRAM efficiency, from 17 gigabytes per second (GB/s) to 25GB/s, and a doubling of NAND flash efficiency, from 1.5GB/s to 3GB/s, over the earlier LPDDR4X-based UFS 2.2 answer.
The new uMCP additionally helps to maximise house effectivity inside a smartphone by integrating DRAM and NAND storage right into a single compact bundle that measures solely 11.5mm x 13mm, permitting extra space for different options. With DRAM capacities starting from 6 gigabytes (GB) to 12GB and storage choices from 128GB to 512GB, the Samsung uMCP could be simply personalized to accommodate the varied wants of 5G smartphones all through the mid- and high-end segments.
Samsung has efficiently accomplished compatibility testing of the LPDDR5 uMCP with a number of international smartphone producers, and expects its uMCP-equipped gadgets to hit mainstream markets beginning this month.
