Samsung announces LPDDR6 memory with 10.7 Gbps transfer speeds

Samsung has teased new LPDDR6 modules, making it one of the first OEMs to do so after JEDEC finalised the standard earlier this year. It is rated for 10.7 Gbps speeds and manufactured on an unspecified 12 nm node. Samsung claims it will offer up to 21% power savings thanks to lower core voltages and Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling. This enables lower power consumption at idle workloads.

Incidentally, Samsung already has 10.7 Gbps LPDDR5x modules manufactured on the same node, so the new LPDDR6 modules won't offer much in the way of a throughput boost. Then again, LPDDR6 is still relatively new, and OEMs won't push the tech to its limits in the first few iterations. In the future, we can expect to see throughputs of up to 14 Gbps.

The press release doesn't specify which products will use the above LPDDR6 modules. Given that most current-gen smartphone SoCs have already surfaced with LPDDR5X memory, the earliest we could see it in action is later next year, likely alongside the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Dimensity 9600. On the laptop side, we can expect to see it alongside some Intel Panther Lake and AMD Medusa Point SKUs.