Elpida next generation mobile RAM products boasting of speed and power efficacy are gearing up to reach consumers soon. This lineup is inclusive of 4-gigabit Wide IO Mobile RAM and 4-gigabit DDR3 Mobile RAM (LPDDR3).
The Wide IO Mobile RAM is a next generation mobile memory chip that seeks to provide swifter speed along with lower power usage. In this reign of smartphones and tablets, the use of DRAMs is on the rise. However, in spite of greater speeds achieved in the process, power consumption is primarily on the higher side.
With an aim to solve this difficulty, the aforesaid memory chip extends the I/O width by employing x512-bit data width. Under this setting, a data transfer rate of 12.8GB/s per chip while functioning at a low speed of 200MHz is what the hardware has on offer. The reduced DRAM speed accounts for less power consumption as compared to latest DRAM choices for mobile devices.
The 4-gigabit DDR3 Mobile RAM or LPDDR3 is another next-generation memory that seemingly achieves a data transfer rate almost twice the speed of LPDDR2. A single chip of the LPDDR3 delivers a data transfer rate of 6.4GB/s or 12.8GB/s varying as per the configuration of mobile devices. When pitted against the LPDDR2, this successive version presumably operates at 25% less power. Sporting a width of x32-bit or x64-bit, the chip expands the duration of operating mobile phones and slates.
The 4-gigabit Wide IO Mobile RAM and 4-gigabit DDR3 Mobile RAM sample shipments have begun worldwide, though the official release date and price have not been disclosed as yet. Volume production of Elpida next generation mobile RAM products will begin in 2012 and the company also has plans of creating two-layer 8-gigabit and four-layer 16-gigabit high density products to expand the lineup.
