Micron announced its UFS 4.0 mobile storage solution and revealed that it has already shipped qualification samples to “select global smartphone manufacturers and chipset vendors”. The new tech will be used to manufacture storage in 256GB, 512GB and 1TB capacities. High-volume production will begin in the second half of this year, so it will be a while before the first phones with Micron UFS 4.0 storage arrive. This storage is built on 232-layer TLC flash (triple-level cells, i.e. storing 3 bits per cell). According to the company, its six-plane NAND architecture enables higher...

As the future Galaxy S23 series approaches, the vanilla Galaxy S23 is set to keep one foot in the past – it will launch with 128GB base storage. Leakster Ice Universe brings some more bad news for would-be S23 buyers, apparently the 128GB version will use the older UFS 3.1 storage format. The higher 256GB version will utilize the new, faster, more efficient UFS 4.0 and at least at launch it will be available at the same price as the 128GB model. According to Ice, Samsung has not manufactured 128GB UFS 4.0 packages, only 256GB and above. Right now it seems that only Japanese rival Kioxia...