Samsung announced mass-production of UFS 3.1 512GB memory chip for flagship smartphones

Samsung announced today that its industry’s first UFS 3.1 512GB memory chip for flagship smartphones has begun volume production. Samsung claims that the UFS 3.1 memory chip provides the fastest storage solution on the market. Compared with the existing UFS 3.0 chip, the write speed of UFS 3.1 is 3 times faster.

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The sequential write speed of this UFS 3.1 memory chip exceeds 1200MB / s; in terms of random performance, UFS 3.1 is 60% faster than UFS 3.0 currently used in flagship smartphones. The performance of sequential read is the same as that of UFS 3.0, both are 2100 MB/s. We can know from this series of data that the speed of UFS 3.1 storage chips is significantly faster than the SSD of SATA protocol and the storage chips of current mainstream Android phones.

“With our introduction of the fastest mobile storage, smartphone users will no longer have to worry about the bottleneck they face with conventional storage cards,” said Cheol Choi, executive vice president of Memory Sales & Marketing at Samsung Electronics. “The new eUFS 3.1 reflects our continuing commitment to supporting the rapidly increasing demands from global smartphone makers this year.”