Although the storage capacity of a smartphone is one of the most important strengths for a consumer, the genre storage is often overlooked. Most Android smartphones (and many electronic devices) use UFS (Universal Flash Storage) and most flagships nowadays use UFS 3.0 or 3.1 storage.
On Tuesday, Samsung introduced UFS 4.0 which uses Samsung’s seventh generation V-NAND memory and a proprietary controller with sequential read speeds of up to 4,200MB / s and sequential write speeds of up to 2,800MB / s. The new storage technology will also provide a 46% energy efficiency improvement in sequential read speeds over the previous generation.
BREAKDOWN: Samsung has developed the industry’s best performing Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 4.0 storage solution, which has received approval from the JEDEC® board of directors. What is UFS 4.0 and what does it mean for the future of storage? Read on to learn more. pic.twitter.com/4Wxdu0J2PD
– Samsung Semiconductor (@SamsungDSGlobal) May 3, 2022
Per lane, UFS 4.0 supports up to 23.2 Gbps per lane, double that of UFS 3.1. Samsung boasts this amount of “perfect bandwidth for 5G smartphones that require huge amounts of data processing” and expects to see the technology adopted in VR, AR and automotive applications.
The new storage technology can be configured to support up to 1TB of storage, so hopefully this means we will start to see more smartphones featuring 512GB and 1TB capacities.
Samsung expects mass production of UFS 4.0 storage to begin in the third quarter, so we can expect to see smartphones wearing the new technology towards the end of the year or on the Galaxy S23 series which is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2023. Read l full Twitter thread to read Samsung’s full announcement on UFS 4.0.
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