Samsung has developed a new memory card for mobile phones with record capacity
Samsung Electronics, a world leader in semiconductor technology, today announced that it has developed an 8 gigabyte microSD memory card that is ideally sized for today’s multimedia mobile phones.
The new nail-sized card, which boasts the largest capacity among microSD cards today, has 2000 MP3 files, 4000 digital photos or approx. It can store 5 DVD quality movies.
Until now, SD cards have been used mainly for data storage in digital cameras and increasingly in televisions. MicroSD cards, which are only a quarter the size of an SD card, are backward compatible with SD cards using a converter, so multimedia files downloaded from mobile phones can be easily displayed on other devices.
With a read speed of 16 megabytes per second and a write speed of 6 MB / s, the 8GB Samsung microSD card far exceeds the Speed Class 4 SDHC (Secure High Speed Capacity) standard, which requires a write speed of 4 MB / s. It is also much faster than the SD Speed Class 2 mark on most rival microSD cards currently on the market. This is the latest in a series of developments that Samsung has made on flash memory cards, while continuing to be determined to play a leading role as a developer in the SD cards and rival MMC (multimedia card) market.
Market research firm Dataquest predicts the memory card market as a whole to grow at an average annual rate of 10% between 2006 and 2010, while demand for high-density 8GB cards will grow 2,6 times an year on average over the same period. In terms of units sold, by 2010, 8GB memory cards will be the main market.
