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Rahim Amir

Samsung is plotting to replace your M.2 SSD with a storage chip smaller than a fingernail to improve battery life and supercharge ondevice AI inference

A promotional image for UFS 5.0 by Samsung.
  • Samsung reveals industry first UFS 5.0 storage: A single fingernail-sized chip that can read at up to 10.8GB/s
  • With capacities of up to 1TB on offer, it makes a solid case for displacing existing M.2 drives in laptops, handhelds and game consoles amongst other hardware
  • The chip is also relevant for AI, offering a significant increase in read speeds for on-device AI solutions as a 40% decrease in power consumption versus UFS 4.1

Samsung has unveiled what it says is the industry's first look at UFS 5.0, a new storage standard for its customers.

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