Samsung's latest thin low-power memory chip.
Samsung's latest thin low-power memory chip.
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Samsung starts mass production for memory chips for on-device AI

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Aiming to meet rising demand for on-device AI, Samsung Electronics has begun mass production for the industry’s thinnest dynamic random access (DRAM) low-power memory chips.

Samsung said it is producing chisp in 12-nanometer (nm)-class, 12-gigabyte (GB) and 16GB LPDDR5X DRAM packages. The devices are as thin as a fingernail, and it’s an example of how AI is driving demand for new kinds of electronics.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.