Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, today announced its UFS 5.0 embedded flash memory solutions, designed to deliver the performance, efficiency and capacity required for the next generation of AI-enabled mobile and edge devices. The new solutions will be demonstrated next week at FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage and are now available as commercial samples in 1 TB and 512 GB capacities. Mass production is expected to begin by the end of 2026.
Built on the latest JEDEC UFS 5.0 standard, Kioxia's new devices leverage the MIPI M-PHY v6.0 physical layer and UniPro v3.0 protocol, including HS-Gear6 operation, to support theoretical interface speeds of up to 46.6 Gb/s per lane and approximately 10.8 GB/s of effective dual-lane read/write performance. As AI workloads continue moving onto devices, storage performance is becoming increasingly important. Large language models, multimodal AI, advanced imaging and real-time inference require significantly faster movement of data between storage and compute. Until now, UFS read performance has been a limiting factor for increasingly sophisticated on-device AI, constraining how quickly large language models and other AI workloads can access data. Kioxia's UFS 5.0 helps remove these bottlenecks, enabling faster application , greater responsiveness and unprecedented user experience across on-device AI applications when compared to UFS 4.1.