Samsung Builds 5G Memory Chips For Next Gen Servers

South Korean giant, Samsung Electronics has apparently unveiled a fifth generation (5G) memory chip, which uses less energy while delivering better performance. Further, the company reportedly said that the new high efficiency green memory chips are meant for next generation data centres, which depend on cloud computing and are based on the Big Data platform.

According to Samsung, the DDR4 chips, which the company has developed, will need more physical space and will also considerably save on the power requirements.


Samsung said that the new green DDR4 chips will take more physical space but save more power. They are expected to increase the data transfer speeds of servers to 2,133 Mbps as compared to the 1,866 Mbps speed of the DDR3 memory chips before this. The energy consumption is also about 24 per cent less.

The new green solid state drive (SSD) can reportedly facilitate data transfer speeds of 4 GBPS. This is six times faster than the SATA SSD’s, which offer only 600 MBPS. The delay in data transfer is also reduced by 67 per cent.

According to Xinhua, the Green PCIe solid state drive (SSD) can offer a data transfer speed of four GBps, six times faster than the SATA SSD's 600MBps and reducing the delay in data transfer by 67 per cent and enhance energy efficiency around 2.6 times.