Samsung simply announced a brand new sort of storage answer for cellular units known as UFS 4.0. It’s the newest model of the Common Flash Storage normal.
The brand new model comes two years after UFS 3.1’s release, and can possible enhance the general pace and efficiency of upcoming telephones and tablets. Earlier than we have a look at its benefits over the earlier variations, let’s run by means of some fundamentals.
What’s UFS?
Common Flash Storage (UFS) is a kind of flash storage designed for cellular units. Its specs are maintained by the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC), an impartial business physique.
The protocol was launched to exchange the outdated embedded MMC (eMMC) normal — utilized in telephones primarily till 2016 — for higher pace and efficiency.
UFS can carry out learn and write operations concurrently, which wasn’t the case for eMMC sort storage options. It additionally elevated the facility effectivity of units, serving to in making batteries last more.
In the event you purchase a contemporary Android cellphone and verify its specs, you’ll discover one thing like UFS talked about written within the inner reminiscence part. The upper the model, the higher the cellphone’s efficiency in writing and studying information saved on the machine.
How’s UFS 4.0 higher?
Presently, UFS 3.1 is the newest normal you may get in devices. Many telephones, together with the newest OnePlus 10 Professional, Xiaomi 12 Professional, and Samsung Galaxy S22 sequence, use the USF 3.1 storage for his or her inner reminiscence.
The brand new UFS 4.0 will deliver numerous enhancements:
- It provides a pace of as much as 23.2Gbits/sec per lane, twice greater than UFS 3.1’s 11.6Gbits /sec per lane pace.
- Sequential learn pace of 4,200MB/sec (vs 2,100MB/sec of UFS 3.1).
- Sequential write pace of two,800MB/sec (vs 1,200MB/sec of UFS 3.1).
- Improved energy effectivity with 6.0MB/sec per mA (46% higher than UFS 3.1).
All these enhancements will possible end in your subsequent cellphone booting up sooner, launching apps extra rapidly, switching between apps, and sooner knowledge processing inside apps and video games.
Samsung mentioned the utmost dimension of a UFS 4.0 chip might be 11mm x 13mm x 1mm and it’ll are available in varied storage capacities as much as 1TB.
Presently, Samsung provides 1TB UFS storage only with UFS 3.0, and chip dimension of 11.5 x 13 x 1.25 mm. The corporate’s web site didn’t point out any UFS 3.1 sort chip with 1TB storage.
This doesn’t seem to be an enormous distinction, nevertheless it’s essential to know that whereas designing telephones just a few additional nanometers can enable designers to slot in extra elements and options. So smaller the chip, the sleeker the cellphone.
When will we see units powered by this new tech?
Samsung mentioned that it plans to start mass manufacturing of UFS 4.0 chips by the third quarter of this yr. So it’s possible that we’ll see telephones powered by it by the tip of this yr or early subsequent yr.
I’m excited to see what efficiency enchancment UFS 4.0 can deliver to Android telephones, and the way it will examine to iPhone’s NVMe sort storage.
