Hynix ships fastest one-gigabit LPDDR2 chip for mobile devices

Though not quite as impressive as the idea of toppling Intel and AMD within the next ten years, Hynix Semiconductor still has a decent reason to brag today. The South Korean chip producer has announced that it has just started mailing out the "fastest data transferring advanced dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip for mobile devices." Said chip is the one-gigabit LPDDR2 (low-power double-data-rate 2), which was crafted using 66-nanometer technology and features an 800-megabits per second operating speed at 1.2-volts. No word on exactly what devices will see the super-speedy chip packed within, but a company spokesperson did note that it plans on ramping up production during Q4 to meet "growing demand for flat-panel television sets and high-end handheld devices."

[Via Physorg]

[The Future @ Apr 7th 2008 4:02AM]

Every month there seems to be new innovations.

At this rate, it becomes difficult to imagine the level of achievements during the next decade

Most exciting time ever in hardware hi tech

[Esat Dedezade @ Apr 7th 2008 4:10AM]

So in about a 100 years time we might have this baby in our cell phones?

I can't even imagine what computers will be like... maybe the UI will be like tron!

One can but only dream :)

[UKNigel @ Apr 7th 2008 12:04PM]

Like Tron, but hopefully without all the danger involved in performing a simple task.

[steve @ Apr 7th 2008 4:26AM]

Nice, although imho the cpu (and gpu) is still the bottleneck in mobile devices.

If possable, this with a lowpower Atom chip would bring mobiles to the perfomance of last years budget laptops to a mobile. Just hoping the chip's physical size and battery life isn't an issue.

[Sharakar @ Apr 7th 2008 4:30AM]

I just want 1 of those 3D Vision MMO's where u only need to wear some digital vizors, like in the Hack// anime or korean manga

[JLTate @ Apr 7th 2008 9:20AM]

What? Screw 66nm! If the smallest feature-size isn't 65nm, then I don't want it!!

800mbit per bit lane is the going rate for DDR2, but the usual voltage is 1.8v. Heck, even DDR3 runs at 1.5v, so with a quick check of Digikey this looks to be the lowest voltage memory of *any* type on the market. I wonder what the power consumption will be like for these things?