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Western Digital launches UFS 3.1 flash memory for new generation of 5G smartphones

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Western Digital has unveiled its second-generation UFS 3.1 storage products for a new generation of 5G smartphones. It won’t be long before you’ll have 512GB of storage on your smartphone.

The San Jose, California-based company said its new flash memory chips will deliver the performance and capacity to support the data-rich multimedia applications smartphone users expect in a 5G world.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.