Skip to main content

Samsung's latest smartphone memory chip has the storage power of a PC

samsung ufs 256gb memorySamsung See Also Even More Evidence That Samsung's Next Galaxy Phone Will Be Insanely Powerful Qualcomm talks up future top-tier smartphone chip More details on Samsung's biggest phone ever have leaked online

Smartphones could soon be getting PC-like storage capabilities after Samsung revealed it has started mass production of 256GB memory chips for mobile devices.

The embedded chips are based on the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 2.0 standard and offer speeds almost double that of SATA-based solid state drives (SSD) for desktop PCs, the company says.

According to Samsung, the new memory chip is capable of supporting seamless 4K Ultra HD video playback on a large-screen mobile device while multitasking.

What this essentially means is a user could be watching a 4K video in split-screen mode while at the same time browsing the internet, looking at pictures or downloading large files in the background, all without a drop in playback performance. This is all thanks to improved read speeds that allow the chip to move data at up to 850MB/s. Write speeds are lower at 260MB/s, although Samsung notes that this is roughly three times faster than a microSD card. Thanks to USB 3.0 support, you'll be able to transfer a 5GB full HD movie onto your device in about 12 seconds, the company reckons.

Needless to say, users will be able to walk around with a lot more content on their smartphones, too. Samsung claims one 256GB UFS chip is big enough to store around 47 full-length HD movies. While that may appear excessive, bear in mind that the move toward virtual reality and 360-degree video will lead to a big bump in storage needs. Joo Sun Choi, EVP Memory Sales and Marketing at Samsung Electronics, said the company was preparing for a "paradigm shift" in the mobile data storage market.

When this might happen exactly remains unclear, however. Samsung introduced a 128GB UFS memory chip for mobile devices in February 2015, although we've yet to see that materialise in the real world, meaning there's no telling when we might be walking around with 256GB of computing power in our pockets.

Read the original article on IB Times UK. Copyright 2016. Follow IB Times UK on Twitter.

More from IB Times UK:
  • EasyJet founder Sir Stelios calls for dismissal of Fastjet CEO Ed Winter
  • UN Security Council to vote on North Korea sanctions amid fears over Russia stonewalling measures
  • Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao's political ambitions to clash with fight commitments
  • Syria conflict: Michael Fallon admits RAF strikes against Isis are not working
  • Apple vs FBI: New York court's ruling bolsters iPhone maker's case
    • NOW WATCH: How to play music from YouTube on your iPhone while using other apps Please enable Javascript to watch this video
    Source: Samsung's latest smartphone memory chip has the storage power of a PC

    Comments

    Post a Comment

    Popular posts from this blog

    Samsung is building a revolutionary ROLL-UP smartphone

    GETTY • US PATENT OFFICE Example of a flexible display, LEFT, and the illustrations filed with the Samsung patent, RIGHT Samsung has been awarded a US patent for a brand-new foldable, rollable display to use across its smartphone and tablet ranges. The South Korean technology firm recently used its flexible display technology in the award-winning Galaxy S6 Edge, which has a dual curved QHD screen. However this latest patent, which was published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, shows the company has bolder ambitions for its curved displays. The illustrations filed with the approved patent reveal a cylindrical hub, which houses the rolled display – which unfurls like a pair of window blinds. US PATENT OFFICE The US patent contains a futuristic cylindrical smartphone with a roll-up display Users then pull a tab at the end of the multitouch display to unroll it from the hub and use the full screen real estate available on the tablet or smartphone. To achiev
    Post a Comment
    Read more

    The Samsung Galaxy Note7 (S820) Review

    This year has been difficult for smartphones, which is a bit of a paradox when you consider just how much better things have gotten compared to last year. With Snapdragon 820, 650, 652, and 625 we've finally moved past the shadow of the Snapdragon 810, 808, and 617/615. While there were Android devices that shipped with the Exynos 7420, they were often paired with a modem that was not necessarily the most power efficient. Despite all of this, there seems to be a general disappointment with smartphones. People are increasingly finding it hard to justify phones like the HTC 10 or Galaxy S7 with competition from OnePlus, Xiaomi, and even Apple with their iPhone SE. In this context the Galaxy Note7 brings much of the flavor of the Galaxy S7 edge, but blends it with the S-Pen of the Note line and a few new features like the iris scanner. If you were paying attention to the industry with the launch of the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Note5, it's very much more of the same rather than the m
    Post a Comment
    Read more

    Why do Android fanboys hate admitting that Samsung copied Apple?

    It's impossible to cover the mobile market without diving into the good ol' "iOS vs. Android" debate from time to time. These are the two biggest mobile platforms on the planet, so they're constantly being compared. Likewise, Samsung and Apple are the world's top two smartphone vendors, so their phones are constantly pitted against each other as well. Of course, there's another reason Apple and Samsung are often mentioned in the same breath: after entering the market, Samsung quickly grew to become the top mobile device maker on the planet thanks in large part to Apple. First, Samsung did everything it possibly could to copy Apple's iPhone and iPad. Then, it spent billions upon billions of dollars belittling Apple products in TV, online, and print advertising. Samsung spent years positioning its own devices as the cool alternative to Apple's iPhone, and its efforts paid off big time. Even now, Samsung continues to copy Apple all the time acro
    Post a Comment
    Read more