Your next smartphone could be a whole lot faster - but not because of the CPU

Date:
Thu, 05 May 2022 04:30:15 +0000

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Samsung has unveiled UFS 4.0 which offers twice the performance of UFS 3.1 in a smaller package.

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Samsung has revealed that it has developed the industrys first Universal
Flash Storage (UFS) 4.0 solution which promises to give the next generation
of smartphones a major performance boost.

In a series of posts on Twitter, Samsung Semiconductor explained that UFS 4.0 is significantly faster than the previous generation (UFS 3.1). However, the new smartphone memory standard will eat up less of your devices battery while also being more compact.

For those unfamiliar, Samsung is one of the industrys top memory makers and its chips are even found in Apples iPhone . Although UFS 3.1 which debuted back in 2020 is already quite fast, UFS 4.0 will deliver up to twice the performance according to the Korean hardware giant.

UFS 4.0 can deliver speeds of up to 23.2Gbps per lane which is more than double that of UFS 3.1. As a result, UFS 4.0 is well suited for 5G
smartphones as they can download even more data. (Image credit: Samsung)
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When paired with Samsungs 7th-gen V-NAND and a proprietary controller under the hood, UFS 4.0 will be able to deliver sequential read speeds of up to 4,200Mbps and sequential write speeds of up to 2,800Mbps.

At the same time, power efficiency has also been increased and UFS 4.0 is capable of offering a sequential read speed of 6.0Mbps per mA representing a 46 percent improvement over UFS 3.1. This means that smartphone owners will
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Samsung has also managed to shrink the size of UFS 4.0 compared to UFS 3.1. While a 512GB UFS 3.1 module measures 11.5 x 13 x 1.0mm, the maximum size of
a UFS 4.0 module is 11 x 13 x 1mm. The companys new smartphone memory will also come in a variety of capacities ranging all the way up to 1TB.

Mass production of UFS 4.0 memory is planned to begin in the third quarter of this year so it could potentially end up in flagship smartphones releasing around the holiday season. Work from anywhere with one of the best business smartphones

Via Android Authority



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