December 13, 2004

Samsung Develops Another Memory Card Format

Samsung announced a new removable, thumbnail sized memory card format for cellphones. The dimensions are 12x14x1.1 mm which is about 1/3 the size of normal MMC cards. The cards operate on 1.8 or 3.3 volts of power and have 10MB per sec read and 7MB per sec write performance. They can be reused 100,000 times and will initially come in 32, 64, and 128 MB sizes. Do we really need another flash memory format? Sigh.