The Korean electronic press reports that Samsung Electronics is preparing to start production of UFS 2.0 NAND Flash memories and expects that by 2015 it will be able to equip the Samsung Galaxy S6 with them.
This particular type of memory offers speeds of up to 1.2 GB per second, while devices using the -established today- eMMC NAND memories reach an average of 400 MB per second. The big "trump card" of this new technology is that it can combine SSDs with power-efficient MMC cards, providing the bandwidth for streaming very large files, such as 4K resolution video. In fact, the new technology will consume half the power of the current eMMC 5.0.
It's not just Samsung that's planning to use UFS, as Chinese company Xiaomi said to have adopted the next-generation technology model. Xiaomi's plans are still unclear, but as for Samsung, we learn that it aims to replace SD and microSD cards with corresponding UFS implementations. In fact, being the leader in the NAND Flash memory market, it has the ability to both push the market in this direction and gain the lion's share of the UFS memory market.
Words are far from action, but a company spokesperson told ETNews that the company will start incorporating the new technology with its flagships in mind, and said that a device will incorporate it in 2015, the features of which have not yet been finalized. There are two most likely scenarios, either the reference to the new device is related to the Galaxy S6, which is not excluded to be in the stage of some important tests, or it refers to the Galaxy Note 5.
Source: phonegr.blogspot.gr
