Taiwan memory module makers indicated that current oversupply of NAND flash in the market has provided them with more freedom to adopt various types of memory card platforms. In the past, NAND flash giant Samsung Electronics was able to aggressively lobby its customers not to adopt its NAND flash chips for use in SD cards, but to only use Samsung-made NAND flash in MultiMediaCard (MMC) cards.
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