The company said it expects the new storage technology to enable seamless, highly efficient AI experiences by reducing latency and improving response times when running large-scale language models (LLMs) directly on mobile devices.
This announcement marks a new benchmark for the mobile memory industry as generative AI increasingly moves from cloud-based computing to on-device processing and the demand for faster, more efficient storage increases.
“In the era of on-device AI, storage devices are evolving into a key driver in defining the AI experience,” said Jangseok Choi, head of memory product planning at Samsung Electronics.
He added, “Having successfully passed the development stage of the industry’s first UFS 5.0 solution, Samsung continues to set a new standard for on-the-go storage and drive innovation in the next-generation mobile platform market.”
samsung The company says its UFS 5.0 integrates JEDEC’s latest embedded memory interface standard and delivers up to 10.8 gigabytes per second (GB/s) of bandwidth.
This solution delivers sequential read speeds of up to 10.8 GB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 9.5 GB/s. This is more than twice the performance of the previous UFS 4.1 standard..
“This significant advance significantly accelerates large-scale data storage and processing for on-device AI applications,” the company said in a statement.
Samsung also said that power efficiency has been significantly improved compared to its UFS 4.1 solution due to technologies such as clock gating and multi-voltage architecture. These enhancements reduce the power required for data transfer, reducing overall energy consumption and extending battery life for next-generation mobile devices.
The company has packaged UFS 5.0 in an ultra-small form factor of 7.5 mm x 13 mm x 0.9 mm, making it 16.7% smaller than the previous generation. Samsung says the reduced size will increase design flexibility and improve internal space utilization across smartphones, wearables, and XR devices.
Samsung plans to begin mass production of UFS 5.0, which has a storage capacity of up to 1 terabyte (TB), in the fourth quarter of this year.
