One of the most crucial components in smartphones is undoubtedly the storage chip, and with UFS 4.0, the storage on phones has never been this fast, but there’s always room for improvement. The modern UFS chips perform as fast as an SSD, yet Kioxia has managed to make UFS 4.0 even faster.

Kioxia’s new UFS chips offer 50% faster random write in 18% smaller area

Kioxia, a company founded by Toshiba, specializes solely in storage and memory solutions. The chips introduced by Kioxia come with storage capacities of 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB. Kioxia unveiled the THGJFMT1E45BATV, THGJFMT2E46BATV, and THGJFMT3E86BATZ chips. We can say that Android phones packing just 128GB of storage are quickly becoming outdated, if they’re rocking UFS 4.0 tech for sure.

The dimensions of the 256GB and 512GB chips are 9.0 x 13.0 x 0.8mm, while the 1TB chip’s dimensions are 9.0 x 13.0 x 0.9mm. Kioxia equipped the new UFS 4.0 chips with BiCS Flash 3D NAND, making them 18% smaller compared to the previously introduced 11mm x 13mm chips.

The write speed of the new UFS chips has increased by 15%, and the random write speed has surged by a whopping 50%, also with a 30% increase in random read speed. However, the maximum read upper limit remains unchanged, capped at 4640MB/s. These speed improvements were based on comparison with Kioxia’s previously released 512GB chip (THGJFLT2E46BATP).

Kioxia announced that the production of the 256GB and 512GB variants of these new chips will commence this month, while the 1TB variant will start production in June.

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Vivo’s sub-brand iQOO is all set to launch its new flagship smartphone under the iQOO 11 series along with the iQOO Neo 7 SE smartphone at a launch event on 2nd December in its home country China.

Now, just days before the official launch event, the company has shared a new teaser poster that reveals some information about the iQOO 11 series’ processor and memory.

As per the teaser poster shared by the company, the iQOO 11 series will come powered by the newly announced Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, and it will be coupled with LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4.0 internal storage.

A recently shared render of the iQOO 11 in a color edition inspired by BMW M Motorsport with a three-color stipe has revealed that the phone will come with a flat display on the front and a triple-camera setup on the back, which will be driven by Vivo V2 ISP.

The iQOO 11 flagship smartphone will come with a 6.78-inch AMOLED display offering a screen resolution of 3200 x 1440 pixels, a 144Hz refresh rate, a 300Hz touch sampling rate, and an independent display chip.

In the camera department, there will be a 50-megapixel primary sensor on the back, coupled with a 13-megapixel ultra-wide lens and an 8-megapixel macro sensor. On the front side, the device will have a 16-megapixel snapper for taking selfies and video calling. It will run Android 13 OS with OriginOS 3 on top and will be powered by a 4,700mAh battery with support for 200W fast charging.

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Samsung has unveiled version 4.0 of the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) solution. The company is a big name when it comes to smartphones and semiconductor. It is also one of the world’s leading manufacturers of memory chips. Samsung’s UFS 3.1 is already a strong performer, but the company’s next-generation flash storage promises huge speed and efficiency gains.

The new UFS 4.0 has been approved by the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC) board of directors. Samsung says that it implements the latest JEDEC standard specification in its new flash storage.

Samsung UFS 4.0 features and Specifications

As per the company, the new UFS storage is expected to improve performance and power efficiency on the upcoming phones. UFS 4.0 will offer a speed of up to 23.2Gbps per lane, which is double that of the previous UFS 3.1. This bandwidth is perfect for 5G smartphones that require huge amounts of data processing, says Samsung.

The new storage solution is said to be adopted in future automotive applications, Augmented reality (AR), and Virtual reality (VR) as well.

Power efficiency has also been increased in the UFS 4.0. The new memory will deliver a sequential read speed of 6.0MB/s per mA (milliampere), which is a 46% improvement over the previous 3.1 version of UFS. This means that smartphones equipped with the UFS 4.0 will have better battery life and improved read and write speeds.

The latest UFS 4.0 will have a smaller size as compared to the previous UFS 3.1. It will measure 11mm x 13mm x 1mm offering more effective space utilization and design convenience. In terms of storage capacity, it will come in a variety of capacities ranging up to 1TB. Mass production of the new memory is likely to commence in the third quarter of 2022.

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