KIOXIA America, Inc. announced sampling of new, higher performing UFS Ver. 4.0 embedded flash memory devices. 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 performance3 of UFS products from KIOXIA enables these applications to take advantage of 5G’s connectivity benefits, leading to faster downloads, reduced lag time and an improved user experience.

UFS Ver. 4.0 devices from KIOXIA 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 23.2 gigabits per second(Gbp/s) per lane or 46.4 Gbp/s per device. UFS 4.0 is backward compatible with UFS 3.1.

“Once again KIOXIA is maintaining its leadership in UFS, with our pipeline of newer, faster performing UFS devices,” noted Scott Beekman, vice president, Memory Business Unit, for KIOXIA America, Inc.

“This is our second generation of UFS 4.0 devices, which were developed to keep pushing the performance boundaries from generation to generation.”