Your next Android smartphone will probably have more RAM than your PC

Smartphones are about to overtake PCs when it comes to RAM memory. 

On Tuesday, Samsung announced it has begun mass production of the first 16GB LPDDR5 DRAM chip for smartphones.

The new chip is fast, with a data transfer rate that's 1.3 times faster than LPDDR4X RAM, and approximately 20% energy savings compared to an 8GB LPDDR4X chip. Speed aside, 16GB sounds like overkill. Is it?

Smartphones with 16GB of RAM exist already; Samsung's own Galaxy S20 Ultra can be had with this preposterous amount of fast memory. But now that's Samsung producing the 16GB chip en masse, it means that more smartphones will become available with this amount of RAM in the near future.  Read more...