microSD Cards

Taiwan-based memory module maker Transcend Information recently introduced a high-density 1 GB miniSD card, and emphasized that the high performance of the card is ideal for handheld applications.

Following its recent announcement of a 4 GByte 150x (22.5 MB/sec; 1x = 150 kB/s) SD card, A-Data Technology has just unveiled another high-end flash-memory product, a 200x 4 GByte MMCplus card.

Pretec claims its new 133x SD card offers more capacity than any other SD card on the market.

The SD Association (SDA), the organisation that oversees the SD memory card format, has formally taken on board the TransFlash specification and renamed it MicroSD.

Samsung claims it is first to offer a 512 MByte microSD card.

SanDisk today announced that it is doubling the current capacity of its popular SanDisk miniSD card to 1 GByte.