Samsung Electronics Reveals the Fastest UFS 5.0 Storage Solution to Boost On Device AI Operations and Mobile Performance Efficiency
Samsung Electronics has revealed in the official Samsung Electronics product announcement that they have created the fastest Universal Flash Storage 5.0 solution the industry has seen yet. This is intended to facilitate advanced AI operation to run directly on mobile hardware. The increase in performance is sought to reduce latency and speed up response times while running complex large language models locally on upcoming consumer devices.
With the move of generative artificial intelligence (AI) from Cloud servers to local device hardware Storage needs are evolving. Storage can no longer be regarded as a simple mechanism for file storage, but in order to maintain active work loads is integral to the infrastructure. Jangseok Choi, Head of Memory Product Planning at Samsung Electronics outlined this in his statement on the development.
In the era of on device AI, storage devices are evolving into a key driver defining AI experiences. As we successfully move beyond the development stage of the industry first UFS 5.0 solution, Samsung is setting a new standard for storage on the go and will continue to drive innovation for the next generation mobile platform market.
The new generation of embedded memory interface adopted by the UFS 5.0 storage developed in is from JEDEC. The sequential read speed can reach up to 10.8GB per second and the sequential write speed up to 9.5GB per second. These data transmission rate are more than 2 folds faster than the old generation of UFS 4.1, greatly speeding up processing for the massive datasets in on device A I application.
Offuare and others not only perfect the speed, but also increase the power efficiency by more than 40% in comparison to the prior UFS 4.1 hardware. To significantly reduce the power usage, Samsung utilized clock gating and multi voltage technologies in the new hardware design. Those design modifications reduce the power necessary to move data which, in the long run, will retain the battery life of mobile devices of the next generation with intense local computing workloads.
Samsung has embedded this high speed storage solution in to a super small form factor measuring a staggering 7.5 millimeters by 13 millimeters by 0.9 millimeters. Its form factor is 16.7% smaller than the previous generation giving better design flexibility and space saving benefits for hardware engineers when designing performance heavy hardware. Its diminutive 3D form factor is perfect for flagship mobile phones, wearable technology and for XR headsets.
Mass production of the UFS 5.0 solution is expected to be initiated in Q4 of the current business cycle. Samsung intends to provide this storage in a series of capacities reaching the maximum 1TB. The date was chosen to be in time to meet the increasing demand for memory components caused by increasing sales of high end mobile phones, virtual reality gear and AI driven wearables.
