Samsung to Provide Memory Chips to Audi

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will provide memory chip products to Volkswagen's Audi after entering into a strategic partnership with the luxury German automaker, the South Korean electronics giant said in a blog post dated Monday.

Samsung Electronics and its sister companies have been making a push to supply components to makers of increasingly sophisticated automobiles.

No financial terms were disclosed.

Samsung Electronics said it will provide cutting-edge memory chips to Audi's future "infotainment", dashboard and driver assistance applications.

Samsung spokespersons were not immediately reachable for comment.

Samsung back in September announced it had started the mass production of the industry's first 12Gb LPDDR4 mobile DRAM module, paving the way for smartphones and tablets with up to 6GB of RAM.

The new 12Gb LPDDR4 RAM is fabricated on the company's own 20nm manufacturing process, Samsung announced on a blog post. It offers a 50 percent greater density than the existing 8Gb chips that currently power smartphones with 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM. More excitingly, the new memory module opens up the possibility of bringing 6GB of RAM on future smartphones and tablets.

The company has had several remarkable achievements in the production of RAM modules. The company announced that its new 12Gb chips are 30 percent faster than its current 8Gb chips lineup. The per-pin speed has been upped to 4,266Mbps, resulting in 34Gbps of bandwidth over a 64-bit bus.

Written with inputs from Reuters