Samsung claims to be the first to break the terabyte threshold for smartphone storage-- specifically by starting mass production of a 1TB embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) 2.1 chip.
Designed for next-generation mobile applications, the 1TB chip comes just 4 years after the introduction of the first UFS solution, the 128GB eUFS. The 1TB eUFS solution has the same package size (11.5 x 13mm) as previous chips, but doubles the capacity of the 512GB version by combining 16 stacked layers of 512-gigabit V-NAND flash memory and a proprietary controller. The result, Samsung says, provides enough space to store 260 10-minute videos in 4K (3840 x 2160) resolution.
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