Samsung had to borrow from a rival – ouch!
Samsung and Micron have now confirmed the Galaxy S25 series indeed uses Micron’s DRAM chips instead of Samsung’s, which the Galaxy S series have used since. forever.
An earlier rumor about the Galaxy S25 series memory chips turned out to be true – despite it subtly meaning Samsung got humbled. It turns out Samsung’s premium Galaxy S25 series uses Micron’s DRAM and UFS 4.0 storage chips, now confirmed by Micron itself and Samsung Mobile on X.
Micron is an American memory chip maker. For ages, Samsung relied on its own memory chips made by Samsung Semiconductor, but the fact that it had to rely on Micron for the Galaxy S25 series straightforwardly confirms that Samsung’s variant just wasn’t that good.
Micron is basically one of Samsung’s primary rivals in the semiconductor memory chip segment. Micron said that its LPDDR5X DRAM chips are made using an advanced 1β (1-beta) technology. This technology allows for the chip to be optimized to run at lower voltages than the competition.
