UFS or NVMe in Smartphone? See Apple's answer!
October 8, 2015
There should be a link between iPhone H/W architecture and the incredible success of the product? Let’s assume and claim that this architecture, based on the internally developed ARM based A9 application processor, is simply the best on the market today…
Apple has implemented SSD in MacBook based on NVM Express (NVMe) protocol. It appears that Apple has adapted the NVMe controller developed for the MacBook to iPhone architecture (the red arrow on the picture below) and we will see that using SSD NVMe (instead of UFS) provide strong differentiation. I have found very exciting information from AnandTech, especially about the way Apple has implemented SSD control.
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