Samsung has begun production of its new 32Gb DDR4 SO-DIMMs (16Gb x2). The new SO-DIMMs are aimed at high-performance laptops that benefit from both the speed and capacity of the memory modules.
The Korean company has made a very dynamic start to the current year in almost all areas related to technology products. Regarding the RAM category, it has already started since March to launch new material which concerned the new 64 Gb RDIMM memories for servers with the idea of producing larger modules of 128 and 256 GB RAM. During the same period, the company also announced a 16 Gb GDDR5 chip for graphics cards.
The new 32 GB DDR4 SO-DIMMs based on 16 Gb DDR4 ICs will have a data transfer rate of 2666 MT/s at 1.2 V.
Because the 16Gb memories are manufactured using Samsung's 10nm process technology, the new module is claimed to be 39% more power efficient than the company's previous generation of 16GB SO-DIMMs, which are based on 20nm-class ICs.
According to Samsung, a laptop equipped with 64 GB of new memory consumes 4,578 W in active mode, while a laptop equipped with 64 GB of previous DDR4 consumes 7,456 W in active mode.
Samsung did not announce when exactly it plans to start production of the 32 GB DDR4 SO-DIMMs, but it is very likely that Samsung's customers, namely manufacturers of high-end notebooks, have already received the new 32 GB memories.
Samsung will gradually expand 16 GB (2 GB) memories for desktop PCs as well.
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