Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra and Galaxy Z Fold8 have both been named Best of Innovation winners in the mobile category of the CES Innovation Awards 2027. Samsung says it has twice as many Best of Innovation wins as it had a year ago.
The awards come from the Consumer Technology Association, which runs CES. Samsung’s tally also covers TVs and displays, home appliances and chips, and the full list of its winners is due on 4 January 2027, two days before the show opens in Las Vegas.
In its announcement, Samsung describes the Fold8 Ultra as its slimmest Z Fold so far: 4.1mm thick unfolded and 215 g, with an 8-inch main screen and a 5,000mAh battery, the largest in the Z Fold line. Its 200MP main camera shoots HDR at full resolution, and a new 50MP ultra-wide camera takes over from the 12MP one on the Z Fold7. Samsung says the wider F1.9 aperture lets in about 34% more light and adds macro shots.
The two phones are built differently. The standard Fold8 has a 5.5-inch cover screen in a 10:16 shape and a 7.6-inch, 4:3 main display, and it is the lightest Z Fold Samsung has made. Both phones use what Samsung calls Flex Titanium, a titanium-based display structure meant to withstand repeated folding and show less crease. Samsung says it cut the Fold8 Ultra’s display module thickness by 10%. The Fold8 carries two 50MP cameras, one wide and one ultra-wide, that record 8K video, plus a Dual Recording mode that captures the front and rear views together.
Samsung also picked out three chip products. A 512GB DDR5 server memory module uses 32Gb chips stacked four layers high instead of eight, which lets a 16-channel server reach 8TB of memory, twice the 4TB possible with 256GB modules, and uses up to 15% less power than a comparable 16Gb-based module. The LPDDR5X SOCAMM2 module for AI servers is rated at up to 153.6 GBps, 2.6 times a standard DDR5 module, and can be swapped without replacing the motherboard.
The third is UFS 5.0 phone storage, which Samsung calls the first of its kind. It reaches up to 10.8 GBps, twice the sequential speed of UFS 4.1, comes in 512GB and 1TB sizes, is 16.7% smaller than the previous generation and has 40% better power efficiency than UFS 4.1. Samsung ties it to on-device AI, where models load from storage.
Samsung has also listed the Bespoke AI Laundry Combo as an honoree. These are design and engineering awards given by the CTA ahead of the show, not sales or review results, and the release gives no prices or on-sale dates.
