Kioxia Unveils Next-generation Universal Flash Storage Ver. 4.0 Devices

KUALA LUMPUR, June 6 (Bernama) -- Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, has announced sampling of new, higher performing UFS Ver. 4.0 embedded flash memory devices, to continuously move Universal Flash Storage (UFS) technology forward.

According to Kioxia in a statement, these devices deliver fast embedded storage transfer speeds in a small package size and are targeted to a variety of next-generation mobile applications, including leading-edge smartphones.

The improved performance enabled by Kioxia’s UFS products allows these applications to take advantage of 5G’s connectivity benefits, leading to faster downloads, reduced lag time and an improved user experience.

Kioxia’s UFS Ver. 4.0 devices integrate the company’s innovative BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory and a controller in a JEDEC-standard package.

UFS 4.0 incorporates MIPI M-PHY 5.0 and UniPro 2.0 and supports theoretical interface speeds of up to 23.2Gbps per lane or 46.4Gbps per device, in which it also backward compatible with UFS 3.1.

The key features include performance improvement over previous generation; supports High Speed Link Startup Sequence (HS-LSS) features; enhances security; as well as supports Extended Initiator ID.

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