Although Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) has been mass-producing its 232-layer 3D TLC NAND for well over a year now, we rarely get to see this type of memory in action since it looks like it is mainly used in products that are sold in China. But perhaps we will finally experience it in a device that will be available globally. That device is Xiaomi's recently announced 14 Pro smartphone, reports BusinessKorea, and it may feature the world's highest-performing smartphone storage subsystem.
The Xiaomi 14 Pro is one of the most capable flagship smartphones released this year. The handset is based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 application processor (one Cortex-X4 core at 3.30 GHz, five high-performance Cortex-A720 cores at 3.20 GHz, two Cortex-A520 at 2.30 GHz, and Adreno 750 graphics implemented using TSMC's N4P node) that is mated with 12 GB or 16 GB of LPDDR5X memory, and an up to 1 TB UFS 4.0 storage subsystem allegedly relying on YMTC's 232-layer 3D NAND memory with a 2400 MT/s interface.
