Western Digital has launched the industry’s first 96-layer 3D NAND UFS 2.1 embedded flash drive for high-end smart phones. Now, you can read this article to obtain some useful information about this drive.
Western Digital Release a New Flash Drive
Last month, the Western Digital Company released the industry’s first 96-layer 3D NAND UFS 2.1 embedded flash drive – the Western Digital iNAND® MC EU321 flash drive.
This advanced UFS enabled embedded flash drive (EFD) can offer good experience for data intensive and the next-generation smart phones, tablets and compute machines.
It accelerate the possibilities of the artificial intelligence, segmented reality, multi-camera high-resolution photography, 4K video capture and other demanding applications for the supported devices which are mentioned in the above paragraph.
About Western Digital iNAND® MC EU321 EFD
This new Western Digital iNAND® MC EU321 EFD utilizes the Western Digital’s 96-layer 3D NAND technology, advanced UFS 2.1 interface technologies and Western Digital’s iNAND SmartSLC 5.1 architecture.
And it can supply exceptional data performance for your smart phones, tablet and notebook machine. Besides, when your device reaches the full capacity, it can also enable its outstanding experiences.
You can note that more and more data-centric functions are coming to the mobile and compute machines. Thus, it is a trend that the volume, velocity and variety of mobile data will increase higher in the feature.
The mobile photography and the video with multi high-resolution cameras and AI-assisted photography can give users some new abilities to create and share the digital files.
In addition, the 5G networks can make the download and transfer speeds faster and faster. It also can change the communication ways between the consumers and the devices and their contents.
Besides, the 5G-powered AI at the mobile device “edge” is able to capture, process and even learn the data in real time. You can see that it is more effective and convenience to handle the data on the device.
The forecast result from the Counterpoint Research says that from 2017 to 2021, the average NAND Flash storage capacitie are growing with a healthy CAGR of 28%.
The increase factors are mainly from the huge replacement demand of the tablets users who need to update to the powerful, connected machines with bigger screens and larger capacities, for the entertainment & productivity is going to be the mainstream use cases.
It is quite obviously that all of these data-intensive apps need to use larger capacities and transfer speeds to offer the seamless on-the-go experience for customer who want to enjoy these experience from the mobile devices.
Compared with the total capacities of the smart phone shipments in the first half of calendar year 2017, the number of the total capacities shipments is 40 percent higher in the first half of calendar year 2018.This is equivalent to 51GB per smartphone which is creating the increased requirement for larger capacities as well as smarter storage technologies.
Optimized for Data-Intensive, High-End Mobile Devices
It is said that this iNAND MC EU321 is the latest production to the iNAND family. It is also trusted by all of the main smart phone and tablet manufactures all over the world for more than one decade.
Its sequential write speeds can reach up to 550MB/s, which can enable exceptional customer experience. Besides, the Western Digital company is going to offer solutions to OEMs with capacities up to 256GB.
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