Samsung’s Galaxy S27 Ultra to deliver insane speed boost that leaves rivals in the dust
Samsung has unveiled UFS 5.0 which has an incredible 10.8Gbps read speed. It's coming to Samsung's phones and wearables.
Samsung has announced its next-generation mobile storage solution. which promises to give its next flagship smartphones, XR headsets and wearables an incredible speed boost.
The Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 5.0 standard will enter mass production later this year and offers seriously fast bandwidth of up to 10.8Gbps. Yes, that’s gigabytes per second. The 10.8Gbps read speed is joined by extremely impressive write speeds of 9.5Gbps.
Samsung says those speeds are more than twice as fast as the previous generation UFC 4.1 and the key benefit will be on-device AI data storage and processing.
In a newsroom post the company explains: “Generative AI is rapidly shifting from the cloud to the device, driving a surge in the scale of data required for local processing. As a result, storage is evolving from a medium used primarily to store data to core infrastructure that supports AI computation.”
The company adds: “This significant advancement enables much faster storage and processing of large data for on-device AI applications.”
Beyond that, Samsung is also promising 40% greater power efficiency, which it says is achieved via new clock gating and multi-voltage tech. Effectively, it means UFS 5.0 will “drastically” lower the power consumption required to transfer that data, which is moving much faster anyway.
It also has a 16% smaller physical footprint than the previous generation, making it suitable for mobile, wearable and XR in up t 1TB configurations. First up, we’d probably expect to see this solution within the Galaxy S27 phones due in early 2027.
Chris Smith
