Samsung Electronics Co.,
Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology solutions, today
announced that it has developed an 8Gigabyte (GB) microSD (Secure Digital)
memory card, a size optimal for today’s multimedia mobile phones. Featuring
the highest capacity today for a microSD card, the new fingernail-sized
card is capable of storing 2,000 MP3 music files, 4,000 digital photos,
or approximately 5 DVD-quality movies.
SD cards, to date, have been largely used for data storage in digital
still cameras and increasingly in televisions. MicroSD cards, which are
a quarter the size of an SD card, are backward compatible with SD cards
using an extender, to allow multimedia files downloaded by mobile phones
to be easily displayed on other media.
With a read speed of 16 Megabytes (MBs) per second and a write speed
of 6MB/s, Samsung’s 8GB microSD card well exceeds the Speed Class 4 SDHC
(Secure Digital High Capacity) standard which requires a data write speed
of 4MB/s. This is also much faster than the SD Speed Class 2 designation
carried by most competing microSD cards currently on the market.
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