Being a step ahead of the competition is key if one is to succeed, this is the philosophy practiced in Samsung Electronics, wary of the fact that mobile devices of the near future will require more storage space, the firm has begun mass production of the industry’s first 512-gigabyte embedded Universal Flash Storage.

Built for next-generation mobile devices and most smart devices in the market, embedded storage has long been a contention my smartphone manufacturers wanting to drop micro SD option all together in devices. With capacity increase, Samsung hopes consumers will be contend with the built storage and not rely on third party cards.

The copious amount available on the new flash storage uses latest processing mechanism from the plant able to stack more V-Nand chips in the same amount space. Hence storage is increased without compromising area inside the phones. With the new storage, flagship smartphones can store approximately 130 4K Ultra HD (3840×2160) video clips of a 10-minute duration.

Incorporating advanced circuit design, the 512Gb flash is less energy consuming while maintaining performance. It also reads way much faster than microSD cards, at approximately 860 megabytes per second (MB/s) and 255MB/s respectively.

Demand for better storage and higher space is a constant from smartphone manufacturers, with its new 64-layer 512 Gigabit V Nand chips, Samsung is poised to see increase in orders.