Western Digital Powers Mobile Applications in the 5G Era
February 18 2020 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
New iNAND MC EU521 Features Turbo Sequential
Write Speeds of up to 800MB/s; Offers UFS 3.1 JEDEC-compliant Write
Booster Storage Technology for Smartphones
With its new Western Digital® iNAND® MC EU521, an embedded
Universal Flash Storage (UFS) device, Western Digital Corp.
(NASDAQ: WDC) equips mobile developers to enhance the 5G smartphone
user experience. An early supporter of JEDEC’s implementation of
Write Booster under the UFS 3.1 standard, Western Digital is among
the first in the industry to deliver commercial storage solutions
optimized for UFS 3.1 5G applications and capabilities.
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The Western Digital iNAND MC EU521
embedded flash device is optimized for UFS 3.1 offering enhanced
user experiences for 5G applications and capabilities. (Graphic:
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The Western Digital iNAND MC EU521 embedded flash device allows
mobile developers to take full advantage of UFS 3.1 high-interface
bandwidth (Gear 4 / 2 Lanes) as well as SLC (single-level cell)
NAND caching. It also offers turbo sequential write speeds up to
800MB/s* to better enable enhanced user experiences for
applications such as downloading 4K and 8K media, large file
transfers from the cloud, and gaming. The iNAND EU521 will be
available in March in 128GB** and 256GB capacities.
“Smartphones now demand more performance and capacity as they
often serve as the primary computing device for everything from
streaming video, playing music, gaming and photography, to payments
and mapping,” said senior vice president and general manager,
Huibert Verhoeven, Western Digital’s Automotive, Mobile and
Emerging business unit. “The SLC caching in the iNAND EU521 with
Write Booster offers users several key performance improvements
that when coupled with 5G are expected to bring faster movie
downloads than ever before. This, and other capabilities make the
EU521 a great option for today’s mobile equipment
manufacturers.”
“Western Digital’s implementation of the new JEDEC storage
standard, UFS 3.1, provides 5G applications with added write
capability and improved caching will help smartphones deliver
higher speed downloads, accelerate large file ‘saves’ and support
other data-intense applications,” said Craig Stice, senior
director, Memory and Storage at Omdia, a global technology research
leader, established following the merger of the research brands of
Informa Tech (Ovum, Heavy Reading and Tractica) and the acquired
IHS Markit technology research portfolio. “Western Digital’s effort
to meet the standard quickly is intended to give mobile device
equipment manufacturers a market-ready solution to choose
from.”***
References:
5G Turbo Speeds? We First Need to Remove the Bottlenecks
Western Digital in Mobile Devices
Western Digital iNAND storage solutions for smartphones and
mobile devices leverage 96-layer 3D NAND and advanced UFS interface
technologies to enable an exceptional user experience. This family
of commercial, embedded products is designed to maintain high and
persistent performance for data-intensive applications such 4K/8K
video, augmented reality, virtual reality and AI. The company also
offers after-market memory cards, and innovative data backup and
charging devices for mobile users.
About Western Digital
Western Digital creates environments for data to thrive. As a
leader in data infrastructure, the company is driving the
innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access and
transform an ever-increasing diversity of data. Everywhere data
lives, from advanced data centers to mobile sensors to personal
devices, our industry-leading solutions deliver the possibilities
of data. Our data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western
Digital®, G-Technology™, SanDisk®, and WD® brands.
© 2020 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights
reserved.
*As used for transfer rate, 1 MB/s = 1 million bytes per second.
Based on internal testing; performance may vary depending upon host
device, usage conditions, drive capacity, and other factors.
** As used for storage capacity, 1GB = 1 billion bytes. Actual
user capacity may be less, depending on operating environment.
***Source – Omdia, NAND Memory Intelligence Services, February
2020. Results are not an endorsement of Western Digital. Any
reliance on these results is at the third-party’s own risk.
Western Digital, the Western Digital logo and iNAND are
registered trademarks or trademarks of Western Digital Corporation
or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other countries. Qualcomm and
Snapdragon are registered trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated. All
other marks are the property of their respective owners. Product
specifications subject to change without notice. Pictures shown may
vary from actual products. Not all products are available in all
regions of the world.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including the expected availability, benefits, capabilities,
capacity, performance, speed and/or other features of the Western
Digital® iNAND® MC EU521. There are a number of risks and
uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be
inaccurate including, among others: changes to specifications from
standards organizations, volatility in global economic conditions;
business conditions and growth in the storage ecosystem; impact of
competitive products and pricing; market acceptance and cost of
commodity materials and specialized product components; actions by
competitors; unexpected advances in competing technologies; our
development and introduction of products based on new technologies
and expansion into new data storage markets; risks associated with
acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures; difficulties or delays in
manufacturing; and other risks and uncertainties listed in the
company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"SEC"), including the company's most recently filed periodic
report, to which your attention is directed. You should not place
undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak
only as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no
obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect
subsequent events or circumstances.
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Karin Taylor Western Digital Public Relations 1-408-717-8869
karin.taylor@wdc.com
Peter Andrew Western Digital Investor Relations 1-800-695-6399
investor@wdc.com
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