Your Next Smartphone May Have 256GB of Storage

If 128GB of storage on your smartphone still isn't enough room for all of your apps, music, videos, and pics, then you're in luck: you'll soon be able to double that capacity to 256GB. Samsung has announced that it's mass producing the industry's first 256GB chips of universal flash storage. Using the UFS 2.0 standard and USB 3.0 support, the chips offer Samsung's most advanced V-NAND flash memory to date and can handle up to 45,000 and 40,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS) for random...