New Samsung Nand Will Make Your Phone S Storage As Fast As The Ssd In Your Laptop

Over the weekend, Samsung announced what they’re calling “the world’s fastest embedded memory“. Using the new eMMC 5.0 standard, these new chips, which will come in 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB configurations, will let your phone or tablet read files at 250 megabytes per second and write files at 90 megabytes per second. That’s pretty much as fast as the typical SSD in your laptop. Not as fast as the fastest SSDS, of course, but definitely average to above average performance.

So now the obvious question: When will this stuff ship? Sad to say that there’s no answer. Samsung merely says that they’ve begun mass producing this stuff. Knowing typical industry lead times, one could make the assumption that consumers will be able to buy a product between now and the end of the year that has this NAND inside, but I couldn’t tell you which devices will be the first to get this peppy silicon.