Samsung touts bonkers-fast 8 Gbit DRAM for phones, AIs Samsung has shown off the first prototype of a somewhat-bonkers DRAM chip: at 8 Gbits, it's not news in terms of scale, but the LPDDR5 silicon pushes bits out the door at 6,400 megabits per second. Since it's a prototype, we can't say the memory is “coming to an iPhone near you”; rather, the company says, delivery will be “in …
not to worry, security software patch will cure that and slow it down....I've heard of clothes shops selling 2nds / rejects but hadn't realised chip makers are now following the same business idea.Find a product idea on their books that had previously been binned and resurrect as a feature.
I read that as being "If it's already zero, don't bother zero'ing it again"
Which makes sense. Charge leakage tends to drift a memory bit to zero so you want to "top it up" during refresh, but if it's already zero there's no need to switch the gate to empty it.
I assume 8 Chips, 8 bits per chip for a conventional 64 bit DDR channel.
64 bits x 6.4 bit/s x ( 1/8 bytes / bit ) = 51.2 GByte / s from a single 64 bit DDR memory
controller.
Of course, DRAM vendors should offer single chips with same address interface and wider
data path, instead of forcing us to buy multiple chips to make up full data width path.
Not in their interest to do so, but the minimum DIMM size in a world of 12/16 heading to 24 dimms in dual socket servers is annoying. You have to fully populate to get the bandwidth up, and often
that puts more cost & capacity in the memory than you would want.
If this is for phone use I think 8 chips will be seen as 7 too many. All teardowns show the phone manufacturers prefer as few chips as possible. There is also the issue of putting 8 chips around the processor without routing conflicts or taking too much space. Of course flip chip packaging had helped but nothing is said about chip scale packaging even and the illustrations show huge beasts.
I don't think I've ever had problems with the on-board storage being too slow. Most Android software is poorly written and is its own bottleneck. What's the planned use?
microSD cards are annoyingly slow but you can take my microSD slot when the onboard storage is the size of microSD cards 2 years in the future.
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