UFS 5.0 will be the next standard for mobile storage standards. It appeared in a leaked Samsung roadmap and is expected to launch in 2027.

Artificial intelligence technologies and their need to run large language models (LLM) natively, Hardware requirements will increase for electronic products at all levels. We’ve already seen how components like RAM have to increase in computers to push this type of new technology. And the same on smartphones. In the future, it is estimated that Android phones will have to include 20 GB of RAM for convenient execution of tasks involving AI.

UFS 5.0 is in progress

As well as memory, the capability of mobile devices will be just as important process data at high speed. This is where the new standards that are being prepared come into play, including the new version Universal flash storagethe most widely used standard for internal storage in mobile phones, cameras, wearables and small devices.

UFS uses NAND flash memory (same base as PC SSDs) and is supported by the industry association JEDEC, which includes all major manufacturers. Among them, Samsung stands out, the world’s largest memory manufacturer and usually at the forefront of the sector, no wonder it is already developing the next generation.

UFS 5.0 will increase performance over previous standards with maximum theoretical bandwidth 10 GB/s. Products with the standard will not be available until 2027. Therefore, a significant improvement over the current standard 4.0 with four lanes and a bandwidth close to 8 GB/s is already expected in advance.

The question is the one mentioned. Artificial intelligence technologies are being deployed in mobile phones with increasing frequency, as we saw in the presentation of the Galaxy S24 from Samsung itself. In the future, operating LLM models may take up roughly 15 percent of a smartphone’s internal storage, so in addition to higher-capacity chips, we’ll need higher-performance standards.