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Samsung's Fastest Phone Memory Ever Goes Into Production at 512GB (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the up-next dept.

Samsung today said it's started mass producing 512GB mobile-focused flash memory with over twice the read speed and 1.5 times the write speed of the previous leader, the 1TB module announced last month at CES. From a report: The V-NAND (PDF) memory is based on its embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) 3.0 spec -- the 1TB is eUFS 2.1. Samsung says the 512GB memory can hit read speeds up to 2,100 megabytes per second compared with 1,000MB/sec of the 1TB flash; sequential write can hit 410MB/sec versus 260MB/sec. The eUFS 3.0 1TB memory is slated to arrive in the second half of 2019.

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  1. Now we can charge $14,500 per phone, excerrent! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because having 512 GIGABYTES of PHONE RAM is really what the consumer needs. Can you make it fold and come in pink? I'll take out a mortgage, must have the new shiny whizbang!

    1. Re:Now we can charge $14,500 per phone, excerrent! by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 5, Funny

      Because having 512 GIGABYTES of PHONE RAM is really what the consumer needs.

      Unfortunately . . . 256 GB will be pre-filled with bloatware.

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    2. Re:Now we can charge $14,500 per phone, excerrent! by The-Ixian · · Score: 2

      but.... it will be FAST bloatware!

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  2. Not memory it's storage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Doesn't anyone care about the distinction between "memory" and "storage". Why are they being used interchangeably?

    1. Re:Not memory it's storage by pgmrdlm · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I was wondering the same thing. And the truly sad part about this. You are the only one that pointed it out. Isn't this a geek site? Shouldn't we all know the difference????

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    2. Re:Not memory it's storage by jellomizer · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Because it is still Memory, and it is still RAM (Random Access Memory). The difference is that this product is Non-Volatile RAM that data will not go away after its power is turned off and what you call Memory is Volatile RAM, which will go away after power is lost.
      However both is Memory and RAM. As it hold data given to it for later retrieval. And they are Random Access meaning you don't need to sift threw a blocks of data you don't need until you happen to get to your useful memory spot.

      Historically Storage wasn't Random Access, It was read sequentially from Cards, to Tape. The Disk magnetic storage still had to reference data in the time, however it can take shortcuts, by moving to different sectors of the disk and reads a block of data.

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    3. Re:Not memory it's storage by KiloByte · · Score: 2

      Nope, Flash can't be accessed randomly, only by a block of the whole page. And even worse, those blocks need then to be erased in large groups. Actual memory not only is byte addressable, but also has around 4 orders of magnitude better access time than the flash disks in the article. As for non-volatile memory, it's 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than this fancy flash.

      Per your definition, a spinning disk would also count as memory, as you don't need to read it sequentially but can seek to a given sector.

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  3. Virtual memory by goombah99 · · Score: 2

    How do they handle the heat? Many nvnm desktop solid state storage have heat sinks and they are bigger too.

    As for memory versus storage this used to be a continuum . Old computers leaned heavily on virtual memory page swaps. And newer ones have a continuum of speeds for memory caches and dram and memory backing the ssd and then ssd fused with spinning disk.

    On cellphones Apple initially only let one app be active at a time in memory .

    And future designs show even more memory types . Many core machines have "near memory" managed by a cpu and far away memory that has to sent over a bus to another cpu

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