Samsung Electronics LPDDR6, First in the World to Pass Verification on Qualcomm’s Next-Gen AP

Samsung Electronics has successfully verified its world-first developed LPDDR6 (low-power DRAM) on Qualcomm’s next-generation mobile AP (application processor) platform.

According to Samsung Electronics on the 23rd, it became the first in the industry to successfully verify 16GB LPDDR6 with an I/O (input/output) speed of up to 10.7Gbps (gigabits per second) on Qualcomm’s “Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6.”

Samsung explained that this achievement was made possible through long-standing and close technical cooperation between Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm, beginning from the early product development stage. Both companies continue to collaborate to rapidly integrate next-generation memory technologies into increasingly advanced on-device AI environments.

Choi Jang-seok, Executive Vice President of the Memory Product Planning Team at Samsung Electronics’ Memory Division, stated, “Following Samsung Electronics’ industry-first development of LPDDR6, we have successfully completed sample supply and quality verification on Qualcomm’s next-generation platform. This further demonstrates the technological competitiveness and product maturity of LPDDR6. Moving forward, we will timely provide high-performance, low-power memory solutions aligned with customer and market commercialization schedules, leading the next-generation AI device market.”

Samsung’s LPDDR6 dynamically controls power consumption in real time based on computational load, enhancing power efficiency despite delivering high performance. By adjusting operating voltage and frequency according to required performance levels and reducing unnecessary power consumption during low-usage periods, it improves power efficiency by up to 21% compared to the previous generation, LPDDR5X.

Samsung Electronics developed the industry’s first LPDDR5 in 2018, followed by the world-first LPDDR5X in 2021, and in 2024, it developed the industry-leading speed of 10.7Gbps LPDDR5X. Throughout this process, Samsung continued verification collaborations with major mobile AP vendors. In 2022, it completed LPDDR5X operation verification on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile platform, and in 2024, it became the first to verify 10.7Gbps LPDDR5X on MediaTek’s flagship mobile AP, “Dimensity 9400.”

Meanwhile, as on-device AI evolves into multimodal AI (technology that connects and processes data of different forms such as text, images, and voice) and AI agents (AI that sets and pursues its own goals), demand for high-performance, low-power LPDDR continues to rise. This is due to the increasing volume of data to be processed and the growing memory capacity per device.

Market research firm Counterpoint forecasts that generative AI smartphones will account for 36% of global smartphone shipments in 2025, rising to 45% in 2026 and 52% in 2027, surpassing half of all smartphones. Consequently, memory capacity per device is increasing faster than actual smartphone shipment volumes. According to market research firm Omdia, while global smartphone shipments increased by only 0.5% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026, total DRAM capacity installed in smartphones rose by 6.1%, and average DRAM capacity per device increased from 7.8GB to 8.3GB, a 5.5% rise.

Samsung Electronics maintains its position as the global leader in the mobile DRAM market. According to Omdia, Samsung’s global mobile DRAM market share reached 43% based on revenue in the first quarter of 2026. This follows 43% in Q3 2025 and 42% in Q4 2025, maintaining a market share above 40%.

The share of LPDDR6 is expected to expand rapidly. Omdia forecasts that LPDDR6’s proportion of total LPDDR shipments will grow from 3% in 2027 to 9% in 2028, 21% in 2029, and reach 39% by 2030.