Samsung UFS 5.0 Doubles Smartphone Storage Speeds To Turbocharge On-Device AI
Samsung is touting the development of its new Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 5.0 chips that operating at up to a blistering 10.8 gigabytes per second (GB/s) to help accelerate on-device artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on next-generation smartphones and other mobile devices. The announcement follows a similar one by rival Kioxia earlier this year.
"In the era of on-device AI, storage devices are evolving into a key driver defining AI experiences," said Jangseok Choi, head of Memory Product Planning at Samsung Electronics. "As we successfully move beyond the development stage of the industry’s first UFS 5.0 solution, Samsung is setting a new standard for storage on the go and will continue to drive innovation for the next-generation mobile platform market."
The 10.8GB/s metric applies to sequential read speeds while sequential writes can hit up to 9.5GB/s. Compared to the previous generation UFS 4.1 standard, which can hit up to 4.3GB/s...
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