Since the launch of the Redmi K30 yesterday, Redmi‘s GM Lu Weibing has been responding to inquiries by fans on some of the features they expected to be onboard the Redmi flagship. One of such inquiry seems to be on the lack of an LPDDR5 RAM on the flagship.
Responding, Lu Weibing stated that we’ll have to wait until the first quarter of 2020 to get a DDR5 RAM. He further stated that using the present generation of LPDDR4X memory in the 5G era was no longer feasible. This statement seems to suggest the K30 5G version will come with an LPDDR5 memory since it is billed to be released in Q1 2019. However, the Redmi K30 was announced with 6GB/8GB LPDDR4X1866MHz dual-channel memory. It also packs UFS 2.1 64GB/128GB/256GB flash memory.
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Samsung Electronics announced the mass production of the industry’s first 12Gb (Gigabit) LPDDR5 mobile DRAM targeted at 5G and AI-powered flagships in July this year. The new 12Gb LPDDR5 DRAMs have an increased data rate of 5,500 megabits per second (Mb/s), which is 1.3 times LPDDR4X’s 4266 Mb/s data rate. This also means that a 12GB RAM package is able to transfer 44GB of data in a second. Samsung adds that the new chip consumes up to 30 percent less power than its predecessor, thanks to new circuit design.
The Galaxy Note 10 was expected to be the first model to feature the LPDDR5 DRAM but that did not happen. The Galaxy S11 may take that honour. n the same vein, we expect the Mi 10 flagship to be Xiaomi’s first LPDDR5 model if the Redmi K30 5G misses out on the technology.
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