The company is one of the first smartphones in the world to use LPDDR5X at a peak rate of 8.533 Gb/s. The company also announced today that its LPDDR5X phone memory is now available on Xiaomi’s latest flagship smartphone, the Xiaomi 13.
Micron said that the company’s latest version, LPDDR5X, is designed for high-end and flagship smartphones, and its peak rate is 33% higher than that of the previous generation of LPDDR5. Compared with the 7.5 Gb/s rate achieved last fall, this full-blooded version of LPDDR5X has further improved the rate.
In November last year, Micron sampled and verified phone memory LPDDR5X based on the industry’s first 1α (1-alpha) process node. Prior to this, Micron also introduced LPDDR5, LPDDR4X based on 1α node, UFS 3.1 based on 176-layer NAND and uMCP5 solutions.
Xu Chunli, vice president of the phone department of Xiaomi Group, said that Micron LPDDR5X can effectively improve the user experience of mobile computing photography, local AI translation and other functions. Mi 13 is the first to be equipped with a full-blooded version of LPDDR5X, with a peak speed of 8.5 Gbps.
According to Micron, today’s complex smartphone processors have multiple heterogeneous processing engines built in, and the increased performance levels of LPDDR5X memory are increasingly important for transferring large amounts of data to these heterogeneous engines. As mobile workloads become more complex, advanced silicon platforms require high data rates to ensure seamless multitasking across applications and enable AI inferencing, augmented and virtual reality, immersive image displays, and high-resolution imaging (such as night mode and portrait mode shooting) and other functions.
