Barun Electronics has released the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) card, which has been attracting attention as the next-generation high-speed memory.
It is no.2 in the world after Samsung Electronics. Barun Electronics will further strengthen its grip on the next-generation external memory market, including existing microSD cards.
UFS is a high-performance storage product that is applied with ‘UFS Interface’, which is the latest memory specification of JEDEC (Joint Electron Device Engineering Council).
The UFS card uses the same card slot as the existing micro SD cards, which makes data transmission speed to be faster. Furthermore, because electricity consumption is also low, it is predicted that markets will expand based on current mobile devices, drones, and automatic motifs that need to respond to high-capacity contents.
After working on commercialization for the past two years,
that can be mass-produced at a low cost, while still having superior stability compared to existing products.
The continuous reading speed is 330mb/s and the continuous writing speed is 150 mb/s, which is four to five times faster than the current micro SD cards that are being mass-produced. Furthermore, because the random reading speed is also 3 times faster and the random writing speed is 40 times faster, it is expected to greatly increase consumers’ convenience as it can process high-resolution pictures or send videos in a shorter time.
Barun Electronics plans to build a UFS card lineup from 8GB to 256GB by the third quarter of this year, and make new results in the high-performance premium memory card market.
In particular, Barun Electronics has also developed a combo-type UFS card reader that can be used with current micro SD cards. The latest smartphones with UFS card readers is expected to be release sometime this year, which is a strategy to preemptively respond to the speed of commercialization.
“The UFS technology, which only a few companies have participated in, has enormous growth potential. As the adoption of internal and external memories has recently expanded around smartphones, we are also spurring the development of UFS cards and embedded memory (eUFS),” said Sul Myung-whan, head of the communications team at Barun Electronics Co.
