South Korea's tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has
started mass producing a 128-gigabyte (GB) memory chip for mid-end
smartphones, paving the road to release more high-capacity handsets at
reasonable prices.
Samsung said the mobile memory chip is based
on the embedded MultiMedia Card (eMMC) 5.0 and 3-bit NAND technology. It
also boasts a data transmission speed of 260 megabytes per second.
"While
flagship smartphones are already transitioning to 128GB memory storage
based on Universal Flash Storage 2.0 or eMMC 5.1 standards, mid-market
smartphones will now be able to increase their storage capacity to 128GB
as well," Samsung said in its press release.
The production
follows another move made by Samsung last month, when the company said
it has churned out the 128GB Universal Flash Storage (UFS) that is
faster and slimmer, and consumes less power compared with previous flash
memory chips.
The high-end version of memory chips announced in
February is aimed at top-tier models, such as the latest Galaxy S6,
which will hit the market in April, while the latest edition is meant
for low-to-mid-end smartphones.
"Samsung has extended its 3-bit
NAND business from SSDs for data centers, servers and PCs to the entire
mobile memory storage market," Samsung said. "Samsung will continue to
broaden its application of 3-bit NAND Flash memory by developing
higher-performance and higher-density solutions." (Yonhap)
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