From PC Mag: Today, Samsung revealed that it has begun mass producing 1TB storage chips for smartphones. The embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) 2.1 chips have appeared a mere four years after Samsung's first 128GB UFS chip. It also means smartphone makers can now offer double the storage available in handsets today.
Shipping a smartphone with 1TB of storage inside might seem like overkill, especially when we are increasingly streaming our entertainment rather than storing it locally. However, Samsung is looking to the future and believes laptop-levels of storage will bring with it laptop-like functionality to our phones.
Cheol Choi, executive vice president of Memory Sales & Marketing at Samsung Electronics, explained "The 1TB eUFS is expected to play a critical role in bringing a more notebook-like user experience to the next generation of mobile devices."
The new 1TB chips sits within the same 11.5-by-13mm package size as the previous 512GB chip making it a slot in replacement for phone designers. Samsung achieved this by managing to stack 16 layers of 512Gb V-NAND flash memory and combining them with a new proprietary controller. The end result is a chip capable of sequential reads at up to 1,000MB/s, and sequential writes at up to 260MB/s. The existing 512GB chip achieves 860MB/s and 255MB/s respectively. Compared to a microSD card, this chip is 10x faster.
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