Laptops, tablets could pack more DDR4 memory with Samsung breakthrough

Samsung wants to cram faster and more power-efficient DDR4 DRAM in laptops and hybrids with new memory chips it introduced on Monday. The South Korean company has started mass production of DDR4 memory chips based on the cutting edge 10-nanometer class process. The first 8-gigabit chips will also go into servers. The new DRAM is faster and more power-efficient than DDR4 memory made using the older 20-nm class process, the company claims. DRAM is critical to computing systems. It is where data is...