Kioxia Targets Flagship Phones With Blazing-Fast 10.8GB/s UFS 5.0 Storage

Faster storage is en route to future high-end smartphones and other mobile devices, and it's coming in the form of UFS 5.0 chips based on the next-generation of Unified Flash Storage protocol. JEDEC is still in the process of standardizing UFS 5.0, but in the meantime, Kioxia said it is already sending out evaluation samples to chipset vendors that will end up deploying the speedy storage chips.

Kioxia's UFS 5.0 solution pairs a new controller design developed in-house specifically for UFS 5.0 with its own 8th generation 3D BiCS flash memory. The upcoming chips have been redesigned for a smaller footprint measuring 7.5mm by 13mm to give device makers more flexibility in their designs. They have the option of choosing between 512GB and 1TB capacities.

The exiting part, however, is the raw speed. Kioxia's UFS 5.0 storage utilizes MIPI M-PHY version ...