Industry Expert Blogs

Thanks to memory controller expert Marc Greenberg, Marketing Director for DDRn Controller IP with Synopsys, for this post “Qualcomm announces first application processor with LPDDR4 capability”. According with Marc, this Application Processor, the Snapdragon 810, is “the first product that I’m aware of that will use LPDDR4 memory”. In fact, the Snapdragon 810 will be sampling by the second half of 2014 and will be implemented in system in production by 2015. As Intel support for DDR4 is the gate opener for this new protocol market adoption in servers or storage segments, Qualcomm support for LPDDR4 is now the gate opener in mobile segments, like High End smartphone, media tablet or high end mobile PC.

This Global Forecast of DRAM market revenue table, already presented in a previous DDR4 blog, shows that 2015 will be the turnaround point, and the first year where LPDDRn related revenue will pass DDRn. Electronic is moving to mobile, and is moving faster than ever.