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The JEDEC UFS (Universal Flash Storage) started in 2011 with the v1.0 first specification version, supporting a bandwidth of 300 MB/s per lane. Since then JEDEC has been continuously releasing new UFS specification versions on top of the MIPI UniPro® and MIPI MPHY® evolving specs. UFS is now evolving to a new version of 3.0, reaching a total bandwidth of 2.4 GB/s. It seems that UFS keeps on slowly winning over eMMC in the mobile market, replacing it in the high end mobile and slowly taking over in the medium/low end as well.

But UFS is not stopping there, after taking over the mobile market it is now entering the automotive market and ready to conquer its next target. New cars are requiring more sophisticated systems with automotive information and entertainment systems and ADAS with more storage requirements for automotive applications. UFS supports their high performance and density needs providing a suitable solution.

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