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Samsung's 256GB flash chips point to super-sized storage for future phones

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Your next phone might pack a whopping 256GB of onboard storage thanks to Samsung.</p><p>
The Korea-based electronics maker announced on Thursday that it’s now mass producing 256GB embedded flash memory chips for smartphones and other devices. The new memory chips are smaller than a microSD card and can pack up to 256GB thanks to Samsung’s cutting-edge V-Nand technology (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2969693/storage/samsung-goes-big-on-storage-with-256gb-v-nand-chips.html).</p><p>
Based on the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 2.0 specification, the new memory is almost twice as fast as SATA-based solid state storage drives on PCS, Samsung says. The new memory uses two lanes of data transfer to reach speeds of up to 850 megabytes per second (MB/s).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3038034/mobile/samsungs-256gb-flash-chips-point-to-super-sized-storage-for-future-phones.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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