Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology today announced the successful qualification of Samsung’s automotive LPDDR4X memory for use with the Snapdragon^® Digital Chassis^™ from Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Samsung’s automotive LPDDR4x qualification signifies the company’s dedicated long-term support of customers with a variety of new products and technologies for automotive applications, This also helps ensure robust supply chain stability and enhanced support for ecosystem partners who are utilizing the Snapdragon Digital Chassis. 

"With a broad automotive lineup of AEC-Q100 qualified DRAM and NAND products, Qualcomm Technologies is an ideal partner to work with for long-term customer solutions," said Hyunduk Cho, vice president and head of Automotive Group at Samsung Electronics’ Memory Business. "Through Samsung’s leadership in design, manufacturing and packaging for memory solutions, our work with Qualcomm Technologies can help support rapid development cycles while ensuring reliability, verification and exceptional product control, which are essential for the automotive industry.”

Samsung is also developing its next-generation automotive LPDDR5 and samples are expected to be available within the fourth quarter of this year. The LPDDR5 will be able to support the highest speed currently available in the automotive memory market at up to 9.6 gigabits-per-second (Gbps), even in extreme temperatures.