4K HDR Smartphones Boosting Memory, Storage ‘Requirements,’ Chipmaker CEO Says
High-end smartphones shown at Mobile World Congress with larger 4K displays, multiple high-resolution cameras and 4K HDR recording are boosting memory and storage "requirements,” said Micron Technology CEO Sanjay Mehrotra on an earnings call. OEMs are “building new artificial intelligence,…
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augmented reality and lifelike virtual reality capabilities into high-end smartphones, including facial and voice recognition, real-time translation, fast image search and scene detection,” he said. Such products are migrating toward 6 GB of low-power DRAM components, he said. The average storage capacity of solid-state drives also is increasing “across all smartphone classes with new flagship models using 64 gigabytes of flash memory at a minimum,” he said.