Even though Samsung only announced volume production of ultra-fast eMMC memory chips back in August,
it's already upgrading to a newer generation of hardware. Moving from
the previous 20nm process to 10nm, the new 64GB eMMC Pro Class 2000 has a
20 percent smaller physical footprint, and claims 30 percent advantages
in both performance and manufacturing productivity. While its previous
chips only starting taking advantage of JEDEC's
eMMC 4.5 interface standard a few months ago, Samsung plans to approach
the group next year to create a new standard that can handle this
design. It has a write speed of 2,000 IOPS (input/output per second) and
a read speed of 5,000 IOPS, besting the 1,500/3,500 numbers reported on
the older hardware, and kicks up the bandwidth to 260 MB/s read and
50MB/s write. These chips went into production late last month and are
destined for slim phones and tablets near you, even if they don't say Samsung on the outside.
