Modern phones and tablets using powerful processors with multiple cores, fast DRAM and graphical interfaces are able to calculate and display 3D content in Full HD resolution, but not all other components can keep up with their performance. One of such weak link is internal memory, but the least handicapped will now recover thanks to the new modules from Samsung.

Samsung announced industry’s first eMMC 5.0 chips with densities of 16, 32 and 64 GB. The chips are based on Samsung’s 64-Gbit NAND technology of the 10-nm class and Samsung claims that the new NAND-memory is the fastest available at this time.

The chips can reach speeds of up to 400 MB/s with their controller. Samsung said the 32 and 64 GB variants are capable of handling up to 7000 IOPS with reading speed of 250 MB/s, while writing operations can be performed at up to 90 MB/s. According to the company, these modules are over 10 times faster than class 10 external memory cards.

“With timely mass production of our ultra-fast eMMC PRO line-up offering a more than 10X performance increase over external memory cards, Samsung will accelerate the spread of high-end mobile devices as the market for devices with larger screens and more multimedia functionality expands even further,” said KyongMoo Mang, vice president of memory marketing. “We will continue to provide advanced mobile memory solutions that allow users to enjoy high definition, large-volume content seamlessly, as we also strengthen technological cooperation with mobile devices manufacturers.”

Samsung claims that the new memory will be used in the next generation of smartphones and tablets, and through the use of its own controller interface boasts of 400 MB/s, which offers a 10-fold increase in speed compared to the Class 10 memory cards. In addition, 32 GB and 64 GB chips have a sequential read speed of 250 MB/s and write speed of 90 MB/s.

The eMMC PRO 5.0 chips come with Samsung’s own intelligent NAND controller and firmware to provide a vertically integrated mobile DRAM solution.

What does these specification means to general users? Samsung means that the faster the storage on mobile devices, the faster the mobile device will be able to deal with different functionality such as better multitasking, better and faster HD video recording, use multiple applications simultaneously, browsing, gaming, file transfers – all in all a performance boost as compared to today’s chips.

Samsung also produces two other eMMC 5.0 “Class700” chips with capacity of four and eight gigabytes, but are apparently not classified in the “PRO” category. This announcement took place in a number of other mobile hardware related announcement made by Samsung. The company recently announced its next-gen Exynos 5 Octa 5420 System-on-Chip and new memory chip with 3GB RAM.

Experts expect the next Galaxy Note III would be the first device to use these new components. Smartphones with 64Gbytes of integrated memory are still a fairly small percentage of the market. Samsung latest offering can further boost its margins by producing future Samsung devices with these new components.