Fast is getting faster ... and it seems Samsung are first at the finishing line. It will ALSO mean faster USB storage devices and faster SSDs ...

"Today even budget personal computer (PC) solid state drives (SSDs) offer read speeds of up to 230 MB/s and write speeds of up to 190 MB/s.  Top-of-the-line models can record speeds of up to 492MB/sec for sequential reads and 518MB/sec for sequential writes.

But the NAND memory used in tablets and smartphones has been stuck in the slow lane, largely due to power and space (form factor) constraints.  That's why the new Samsung Embedded Multimedia Card (eMMC) Pro Class 1500 is an exciting development, despite speeds that would seem pedestrian by PC standards.

Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KSC:005930) is building the new NAND memory on its proprietary 20 nm process node.  It just began "volume production" of 16-, 32- and 64-gigabyte (GB) density modules for "smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices."

Source: Dailytech

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