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

Samsung has revealed that it has developed the industry-leading Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 4.0 solution, which promises to give the next generation of smartphones a huge performance boost.

Samsung Semiconductor explained in a series of Twitter posts that UFS 4.0 is significantly faster than the previous generation (UFS 3.1). However, the new smartphone memory standard will consume less of your device's battery and will be even more compact.

For those unfamiliar, Samsung is one of the industry's leading memory makers and its chips are also found in Apple's iPhones . Although UFS 3.1, which debuted in 2020, is already quite fast, according to the Korean hardware giant, UFS 4.0 will deliver up to twice the performance.

UFS 4.0 can deliver speeds of up to 23.2 Gbps per lane, more than double that of UV 3.1. Therefore, UFS 4.0 is suitable for 5G smartphones because they can download even more data.

Could UV 4.0 be a game changer?

When combined with Samsung 's 7th Gen V-NAND and its hood controller, UFS 4.0 will be able to deliver sequential read speeds of up to 4200 Mbps and consecutive write speeds of up to 2800Mbps.

At the same time, power efficiency has also increased and UFS 4.0 can deliver a sequential read rate of 6.0 Mbps per mA, a 46% improvement over UV 3.1. This means that smartphone owners will be able to extend the battery life of their devices, even with a significant increase in performance.

Samsung has also managed to reduce the size of UV 4.0 compared to UV 3.1. While a 512 GB UV 3.1 module measures 11.5 x 13 x 1.0 mm, the maximum size of a UV 4.0 module is 11 x 13 x 1 mm. The company's new smartphone memory will also be available in a range of capacities up to 1TB.

Mass production of the UV Memory 4.0 is expected to begin in the third quarter of this year, so it could end up in the launch of flagship smartphones during the holiday season.

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Via Android Authority

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