Smartphones are becoming more and more like computers. They have processors that are rated with speed and cores, and they have SoC with graphics that may challenge desktops and capable of playing 1080P content easily. Now even their memories are catching up with computers. Samsung has started developing 30nm 4Gb 1066Mbps LPDDR2, which in layman’s term is a Mobile DDR2 for your smartphone, and are phasing out its 40nm ones that topped 2Gb at a 800Mbps transmission rate.

If you do not speak geek language, a 40nm 1GB package on your new smartphone consists of four 2Gb chips, whereas the new 30nm one will only need two 4Gb chips, thus you save space, as the package is thinner by 20-percent (down to 0.8mm) and power consumption down by 25-percent, which is the most important thing to smartphone. So, if you double that up, you’ll be seeing smartphones getting 2GB of memories very soon this year, which should be overkill at the moment, but not in the distance future. Now, will Apple gobble these up?

SOURCE via Samsung