Samsung teases twice-as-fast UFS 5.0 storage for future ‘flagship smartphones’
9to5 Google 2026-06-23 18:40:00
Context: Samsung has announced a new UFS 5.0 storage solution, touted as the "industry's fastest," which will deliver significantly faster read and write speeds compared to existing options. This new storage solution is expected to be used in future flagship smartphones, as well as wearables and XR devices. The announcement was made on June 23, with mass production of UFS 5.0 set to begin in the fourth quarter of this year.
Key Facts
- Samsung's UFS 5.0 storage solution will deliver read speeds of up to 10.8 GB/s and write speeds of up to 9.5 GB/s, roughly twice as fast as existing UFS 4.1 solutions.
- Compared to UFS 4.1, UFS 5.0 offers a significant boost in performance, with the best UFS 4.1 solutions topping out at around 4.3GB/s read and 4GB/s write.
- Samsung pitches UFS 5.0 as a key advancement for on-device AI, enabling faster processing of larger data sets, while also improving general device performance and power efficiency by over 40% compared to UFS 4.1.
- The new UFS 5.0 solution will be available in a variety of capacities up to one terabyte (TB) and will be used in future flagship smartphones, wearables, and XR devices.
- Samsung plans to begin mass production of UFS 5.0 in the fourth quarter of this year, with the goal of scaling up supply to meet the growth of next-generation device markets.