Samsung starts producing 3GB mobile RAM; in time for Galaxy

Samsung on Wednesday announced that it has started mass-producing 3GB LPDDR3 memory for smartphones, revealing that the first handsets to pack 3GB of RAM should ship in the second half of the year.

Previous reports did say that the company’s next flagship smartphone – the Galaxy Note 3 – will come with 3GB of memory under the hood, and Samsung’s announcement arrived just in time to further fuel such speculation. Not to mention that the LG G2 is also expected to have 3GB of RAM on board.

After all, we can safely assume that only high-end handsets will offer such hardware, with Galaxy Note 3 and the LG G2 being prime candidates to use the new low-powered RAM.

In addition to being power-efficient, the new RAM modules are faster, offer “full” LTE-A support and will let device makers create even slimmer devices and utilize saved space for bigger batteries or other components:

"The Samsung 3GB LPDDR3 mobile DRAM uses six of the industry's smallest 20-nanometer (nm) class* four gigabit (Gb) LPDDR3 chips, in a symmetrical structure of two sets of three chips stacked in a single package only 0.8 millimeters high. With a full line-up of package dimensions, Samsung's new ultra-slim memory solutions will enable thinner smartphone designs and allow for additional battery space, while offering a data transfer speed of up to 2,133 megabits per second (Mbps) per pin."

The next step for the company is developing a 3GB module based on four 6Gb LPDDR3 DRAM chips to further improve RAM performance.

While we can’t confirm at this point whether the Galaxy Note 3 and LG G2 will indeed use the new 3GB RAM modules from Samsung, the company does say in its press release that the “initial adoption will expand to most high-end smartphones worldwide next year,” suggesting it will provide such components to a variety of mobile device makers.