Worried about low memory on your smartphone? Samsung has a great solution

If you’re the type of smartphone user that’s constantly running out of storage space, an announcement out of Samsung today will be of interest, reports Forbes. The company just revealed a brand new Embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) device with a capacity of one-terabyte (1TB) – yes, that’s Terabyte, with T. That is 16x more storage capacity than a 64GB phone, which is a common capacity today.

The Korean company has a long track record of making a technology announcement and having said technology quickly show up in one (or more) of its smartphones down the line. This trend is most evident when the company made a memory or storage related breakthrough. It’s set to announce a new memory type or a faster, higher-capacity NAND flash storage device and it’ll appear in the next Galaxy S or Note.

“The 1TB eUFS is expected to play a critical role in bringing more notebook-like user experience to the next generation of mobile devices,” reportedly says Cheol Choi, executive vice president of Memory Sales & Marketing at Samsung Electronics.

The introduction of this new eUFS means next-gen smartphone will not only get a much-needed boost in internal storage capacity but a performance boost as well. Samsung is claiming its 1TB eUFS device is approximately 10x the speed of a typical microSD card. According to Samsung, sequential read speeds in the 1GB/s range are possible with the chip, with writes of about 260MB/s.

Samsung plans to ramp production of its new 1TB eUFS device over the course of the first half of 2019. That means the chip probably won’t find its way in the upcoming Galaxy S10, which is due to arrive in a few weeks, but a 1TB Galaxy Note 10 is a good bet.

This story first appeared on the Forbes website.