Samsung has begun mass production of eUFS 3.0 storage chips for smartphones and other devices that the company says offers data transfer speeds that are twice as fast as eUFS 2.1. 128GB and 512GB eUFS 3.0 versions should be available this month, and Samsung says it’ll begin shipping 256GB and 1TB eUFS 3.0 products in […]
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Toshiba begins sampling UFS 3.0 storage (faster storage for smartphones)
Smartphone processors keep getting faster, the cameras keep getting better, and the batteries are… still there. But there’s another piece of hardware that can affect performance of smartphones and other mobile devices: the storage technology. Early phones shipped with eMMC flash storage (and some cheaper models still do). More recently phone makers started adopting UFS […]
UFS 3.0 storage coming to smartphones in 2019
Chip makers release new smartphone processors every year that are designed to bring faster speeds and additional features to mobile devices. But storage updates come less frequently. A few years ago phone makers largely made the move from eMMC to UFS storage for high-end phones, with most current flagships using UFS 2.1 storage offering theoretical […]
UFS 3.0 flash storage to support speeds up to 2.4GB/s
Every year chip makers release new processors that bring better performance and/or improved efficiency to smartphones. But processors are only one of the factors in smartphone performance. Another is the type of storage. Over the past few years we’ve seen smartphone makers start to adopt UFS 2.0 and UFS 2.1 storage, which offer a big […]