Samsung Galaxy S22 could get a big chipset and RAM upgrade

The Samsung Galaxy S22 is sure to be among the most powerful phones of 2022, but that power upgrade might not just come from a new chipset, as the company has also just announced new RAM which could make its way into the phone.

Samsung has unveiled the industry’s first LPDDR5X DRAM, a type of RAM which offers over 1.3x faster processing speeds (of up to 8.5Gbps) and consumes almost 20% less power than the previous generation of RAM.

So it sounds like a significant improvement, but it’s worth noting that Samsung hasn’t confirmed whether this will come to phones. In fact, the press release mentions going “beyond smartphones” and using it in things like servers and cars.

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