Features of Samsung's mobile flash storage drive

SEOUL, KOREA: Samsung Electronics's flash storage chips, eMMC Pro Class 1500, meant for smartphone and tablet is already under production. Let us see what are its features.

Features

Comes in 16-, 32- and 64-gigabyte (GB) densities.

Uses Samsung's 64-gigabit (Gb) NAND with a toggle DDR 2.0 interface.

Is based on the company's latest 20 nanometer class process technology.

Comes with its own high performance controller and intelligent flash management firmware

Comes in in two, four- and eight-die stacks.

The 64GB is only 1.2 millimeters thick and 0.6 grams heavy.

Features reliable boot code and application storage

What is it capable of

Can deliver reading data sequentially at up to 140 megabytes per second (MB/s) and writing it at up to 50 MB/s.

For random reading and writing, it can process up to 3500/1500 IOPS (inputs and outputs per second).

Can support 3D and HD video capture and playback, multi-tasking activities, augmented reality and interactive graphics-rich gaming among others.

What the company claims

The new eMMC Pro Class 1500 is the industry's fastest embedded storage processor.

For random reading and writing it can deliver four times the speed of previous eMMC solutions.

The 64GB eMMC can store 16,000 MP3 files in a single package.

First to support the latest JEDEC e-MMC v4.5 specification

The specification standardizes more features to improve performance, efficiency, security, and reliability such as: a SDR-200 Interface (200MHz, 200MB/s Max Bandwidth), cache handling, dynamic handling, file sanitizing and power-off notification.

"With the production of 64GB Samsung eMMC Pro Class 1500, we are delighted to provide the highest performing mobile storage solutions available that support the latest eMMC standard, for worldwide mobile device makers," said JaeHyeong Lee, vice president, Memory Product Planning & Application Engineering, Samsung Electronics.

Samsung provided the first 64GB eMMC in January of 2010 using 30nm-class 32Gb NAND flash components.