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Thursday, 13 September 2007 |
Universal Flash Storage (UFS), this is the name several renown players of telecom and entertainment electronics reckon will be the next unifying standard. The mobile phones producers Nokia, Samsung und Sony Ericsson as well as the chip-manufacturers Micron, Spansion, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments are targeting to agree on the unifying standard called UFS.
UFS shall be specified and approved by the JEDEC and shall avoid further consumer confusion due to the many different standards available for mobile phones and electronics today.
“The industry is in need of universal memory solutions for exchangeable memory cards and also for embedded flash.” Nokia is commenting this start of standard unifying measures.
Today’s need for faster memory cards with bigger capacity that are able to satisfy the growing need for multimedia content should also be taken into consideration when it comes to today’s situation where various adapters are needed to ensure data exchange between the different standards used.
No details where disclosed on technical specifications for this new UFS standard. Nokia pointed out though that future read/write speed shall be much faster then those of today. Where it takes around three minutes to access a 4GB file from a memory card this shall only take a few seconds with UFS. According to the companies involved in defining the new standard UFS shall become available in 2009.
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