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Will Smartphones Be Forced to Use More Modern Memory?

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TECH NEWS – Right now, the reality is that weaker entry-level smartphones may be forced to rely on newer, and therefore more expensive, memory.   Older-generation LPDDR4 and LPDDR4X memory modules have been in production for roughly 8 to 10 years, but reports now suggest that Samsung is halting that production, most likely because it wants to maximize profits by focusing instead on supplying LPDDR5 and LPDDR5X RAM modules. That means customers w…
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[Digital Daily Reporter Bae Tae-yong] Samsung Electronics has entered the final stage of its product lifecycle by suspending the acceptance of new orders for LPDDR4 and LPDDR4X DRAMs, which were widely used in mobile devices. This decision by Samsung Electronics is in line with a strategy to reduce the proportion of older memory and shift production capabilities to highly profitable next-generation technologies, such as LPDDR5, DDR5, and High B…

The era of "1,000 yuan smartphones" may finally be coming to an end in the smartphone industry. Due to the recent surge in memory prices, Xiaomi and OPPO have been forced to raise their prices.

Read the original note in the following link: Samsung removes the LPDDR4 RAM: what this means for the price of smartphones in 2026 Samsung has made a decision that will change the mobile market in the short term. And it is that the South Korean company stopped accepting new orders for LPDDR4 and LPDDR4X memory chips, ending almost a decade of this standard domain in the industry. Therefore, smartphone manufacturers no longer have another option:…

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Technologueid Jakarta Samsung is reportedly going to gradually stop production of LPDDR4 RAM and completely switch to LPDDR5 in the near future. This move marks a major change in the industry, ...

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Samsung has stopped accepting the new LPDDR4 and LPDDR4X memory commands. Production will stop at the end of 2026. Chinese manufacturers flicker the vein.

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theGeek.games broke the news on Sunday, April 19, 2026.
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