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Six 'RAM' stories April 2013 - June 2016

OnePlus 3 w/ RAM fix takes on the Galaxy S7 again, this time with better results [Video]

Ben Schoon Jun 20 2016 - 8:12 am PT

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Even with its 6GB of RAM, a YouTube comparison revealed last week that the OnePlus 3 still had a bit of trouble with multitasking. When compared with the Galaxy S7 Edge, the OnePlus 3 took marginally longer to store and reload apps from memory despite its supposed advantage on paper. Later the same week, the talents over at XDA developed a potential fix for this issue and now the same YouTuber who started this is back with the fix applied to show us how it improves things.

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Samsung working on super-efficient 6GB LPDDR4 RAM chips for next-gen smartphones, tablets and PCs

Cam Bunton Sep 9 2015 - 2:17 am PT

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In a blog post this morning, Samsung has announced that it is mass producing the world’s first 12gigabit (not to be confused with gigabyte/GB) LPDDR4 mobile RAM. It’s based on the company’s impressive 20-nanometer process tech and will enable the company to make higher capacity, faster, more powerful chips that fit into the same space as the current crop of flagship RAM modules…

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Viewing websites in Chrome should now use 10% less memory on average [Video]

Stephen Hall Sep 3 2015 - 1:52 pm PT

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Following the public release of Chrome 45 a couple of days ago, Google yesterday detailed an important new feature for mobile: Chrome Custom Tabs. Now, Google is showing off more of the performance improvements that the company has introduced in the latest version, allowing Chrome to use less memory and power on the desktop. In one example, it seems Google has managed to reduce the memory footprint of most sites you visit through the browser…
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Google’s Android ‘M’ is codenamed ‘Macadamia Nut Cookie,’ said to focus on battery life and RAM

Stephen Hall May 26 2015 - 7:14 am PT

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In just a couple of days, Google will—almost surely—be taking the wraps off the latest version of its mobile operating system, Android “M”. It’s rumored to be codenamed “Macadamia Nut Cookie” thanks to the latest versions of the Android Open Source Project sporting scattered mentions of “MNC,” and new information from Android Police suggests that this year Google is going to put a big focus on battery and RAM performance…
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4 GB RAM smartphones incoming as Samsung starts production of new memory module

Stephen Hall Dec 23 2014 - 11:29 am PT

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It seems as if smartphone specifications are looking more and more like the desktops of not long ago, and today’s news furthers this phenomenon. Samsung has announced that it has begun production of a LPDDR4 (low power double data rate 4) 8 Gigabit DRAM memory module based in its 20nm process, and says it will be ready by sometime in early 2015. This translates to a chip that’s 4 GB of usable memory, basically double of what most flagship smartphones have today.

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More Google Glass hardware specs revealed: OMAP 4430 CPU, 682mb to 1GB of RAM

Jordan Kahn Apr 26 2013 - 8:54 am PT

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glass We already knew that Google Glass would be running Android 4.0.4 and got a look at the official tech specs straight from Google, but until now we didn’t know some of the specifics such as how much RAM and what processor the device is using. Today we details via developer +JayLee (via Selfscreens) that Google Glass reports running a OMAP 4430 CPU similar to that used in the original Kindle (although not other details are available on the processor) and 682mb of RAM. Lee speculates Glass might actually pack in 1GB of RAM:
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