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Universal Flash Storage, or UFS for short, is the storage technology used by many smartphones and other devices. Samsung has already introduced its implementation of UFS 4.0, a faster updated version that may appear in your next phone or tablet.
Samsung Semiconductor has announced the new UFS 4.0 technology in a series of tweets. The company said: “UFS 4.0 offers a bandwidth of up to 23.2Gbps per band, twice as much as the previous UFS 3.1. […] With Samsung’s advanced 7th generation V-NAND and its own controller under the hood, UFS 4.0 will provide sequential read speeds of up to 4200MB / s and sequential write speeds of up to 2800MB / s. ”
UFS 4.0 sounds like a significant upgrade over the UFS 3.0 standard, which was introduced in 2018, which has a maximum data transfer rate of 11.6 Gbps per tape, with a maximum speed of about 2900 MB / s. This makes the new designs of UFS 4.0 about twice as fast, although the UFS 3.1 standard, introduced in 2020, includes several additional features that make some devices a little faster. It seems that the new upgrade is still limited to two data strips.
Samsung says its UFS 4.0 chips are 46% more energy efficient than its UFS 3.0 designs, with a sequential read speed of 6.0MB / s per mA. The chipsets will be produced in several different capacities (up to 1TB) and will not be larger than 11 mm x 13 mm x 1 mm. Mass production will begin in the third quarter of 2022.
UFS flash memory is used in many smartphones and tablets from Samsung, Xiaomi and OnePlus. Phones with UFS 4.0 will have faster storage performance (speed up tasks such as charging games), and improved energy efficiency can slightly improve battery life. Samsung is always updating its flagship Galaxy S phones at the beginning of the year – the Galaxy S22 series arrived in February – so we’ll probably have to wait for the best Android phones for next year to see UFS 4.0 in action. The production schedule of Q3 means that there is a chance that some first-class phones released at the end of the year will have UFS 4.0, such as the Pixel 7 series or the next Galaxy Z Fold, but we will have to wait and see.
Source: Samsung Semiconductor
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