Samsung, SK Hynix numerous phone memory chip production UFS new storm brewing

Following Samsung Electronics (Samsung Electronics) launched the 128GB and 256GB universal flash storage (Universal Flash Storage; UFS) 2.0 chip, SK Hynix (SK Hynix) also into volume production 64GB UFS 2.0 chips, though Toshiba (Toshiba) and Micron (Micron ) has not been in the field of UFS concrete results, and then as the global NAND Flash market leader and the fourth chip maker UFS numerous mass production, is expected to accelerate smartphone upgrade memory specifications, the industry estimates the second half of 2016 we will see high-end mobile chip mounted UFS listed.

According to South Korea electronic news (ET News) reports, SK Hynix continued expansion of high-capacity memory product line-up, has been put into mass production in January 64GB UFS 2.0 chip, it is expected to begin shipping in April, in fact, SK Hynix in the second half of 2015 then once a small amount of production, supply customers 32GB UFS 2.0 product, this time not only to expand the production line production 64GB products, related products are also expected to effectively enhance revenue.

Samsung UFS chip fast pace of development in 2015, Samsung's memory division has been launched 128GB UFS 2.0 chip recently introduced 256GB product. As Toshiba and Micron have not been able to hand over the results of the field in the UFS, in the past despite a public UFS Toshiba sample, but has not been introduced into mass production, as Micron has yet to be concrete progress.

UFS Technology combines solid state drives (SSD) for fast and eMMC (embedded MultiMedia Card), low power consumption, UFS 2.0 specification per second maximum transfer rate of up to 1.2GB, is about three times the transfer rate of 400MB per second, eMMC 5.0 of and power consumption and eMMC similar.

Currently UFS representative chip applications, is the Samsung Galaxy S series smartphone market in 2015 and 2016, new models Galaxy S6 Galaxy S7, replace chips are based UFS eMMC, the industry came part of the demands of high-performance Continental wisdom phone industry, also started a small amount of orders for the next UFS chip.

It is worth noting that recently came about 20 smartphones has plans to plant high-end models use UFS chip replace eMMC, and almost all the leading mobile phone brand owners have decided to gradually switch to UFS chip, even if the currently mounted UFS only a handful of mobile phone chips, but the industry is expected to adopt UFS chip phone will increase after the second half of 2016.

Market research firm IHS predicts that by 2016 about 10% of smartphone market UFS share storage devices, eMMC 90% is expected in 2019 UFS share is expected to increase to 26%. Industry believes that, based smartphone chip factory mounted UFS plan view, UFS market outlook is expected to be more optimistic than expected.