Samsung has officially announced the development of its next-generation mobile storage standard, UFS 5.0, promising significant improvements in performance, power efficiency, and physical size compared to current solutions.

The company claims UFS 5.0 delivers up to twice the performance of its UFS 4.1 storage, marking a substantial leap in mobile data handling capabilities. The new standard is built on JEDEC’s latest embedded storage interface specification and is designed to better support increasingly demanding workloads on smartphones, including on-device artificial intelligence and large language models.

In terms of performance, UFS 5.0 offers sequential read speeds of up to 10.8GB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 9.8GB/s. Samsung states that this makes the technology significantly faster than its current generation storage, with improvements aimed at reducing latency and improving responsiveness across applications.

The company also highlights efficiency gains, claiming UFS 5.0 is more than 40% more power efficient than UFS 4.1. Alongside performance and efficiency improvements, Samsung notes that the new storage package is approximately 16.7% smaller, allowing for better space optimization inside increasingly compact smartphone designs.

Mass production of UFS 5.0 is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of this year, with capacities reaching up to 1TB. The technology is likely to appear in next-generation flagship smartphones as manufacturers adopt the standard for faster storage and improved AI processing capabilities.

If widely adopted, UFS 5.0 could play a key role in enhancing mobile performance across a range of devices, particularly those focused on AI-driven features and high-end computing tasks.