According to Korean media ajunews, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will become the industry’s first flagship chip to support LPDDR6 memory, and the A18 Pro chip launched by Apple this year will adopt the LPDDR5T specification.
The report points out that the main reason currently restricting enterprises from deploying higher-standard LPDDR is cost, which requires foundries to purchase and upgrade complete production equipment. The report takes the vivo X100 Pro as an example, saying that the machine was reported to be equipped with LPDDR5T in November last year, but it was not upgraded in the end and used LPDDR5X.
It was previously reported that the International Semiconductor Standards Organization (JEDEC) will determine the LPDDR6 memory specification in the second half of this year, and Samsung and Hynix, two of the world’s leading DRAM manufacturers, are stepping up production of these LPDDR6 modules.
The same source also notes that LPDDR7 may debut in Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 5000 series and AMD’s RDNA4 GPUs.
