Samsung is ramping DDR3 on 20nm, even though it's already got 20nm DDR4 supposedly ready to go . Will this hurt the new standard's uptake rate?

Samsung wants to cram faster and more power-efficient DDR4 DRAM in laptops and hybrids with new memory chips it introduced on Monday.

Samsung also hints that the resulting 4GB RAM modules will be included in "UHD smartphones, tablets and ultra-slim notebooks," which says something about the jump in smartphone screen resolution ...

The new Samsung RAM Plus feature gives your phone up to 4GB of more "RAM." It's virtual memory, though, so keep your expectations low.

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So, that would be an extra 4GB of RAM for the S25 relative to the S24, and it would be a similar upgrade for the Ultra, as the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra has 12GB of RAM.

DDR4 RAM still holds well for gaming laptops and is a great choice due to its affordability and performance.

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A single 128GB TSV DDR4 RDIMM is composed of 144x DDR4 chips, arranged into 36x 4GB DRAM packages, each containing 4x 8Gb chips built on Samsung's 20nm process.

Recent Switch teardowns point to the console-and-handheld hybrid leveraging 4GB of Samsung LPDDR4-1600 RAM memory.

The Samsung news blog says that the new leading-edge 10nm-class 8Gb DDR4 DRAM significantly improves upon the wafer productivity of 20nm 8Gb DDR4 DRAM by more than 30 percent.