14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung has been making microSD memory cards for years, ever since they became popular in consumer digital cameras.
Embedded memory, though, has been stealing the market share and, thus, profits made by microSD cards.
Coupled with the higher demand for eMMC, eMCP and SSD devices, this has pushed microSD cards to a background spot on the NAND Flash storage market.
That is why, a report says, Samsung will back out of the microSD market altogether, and divert resources to the products listed above.
Toshiba, SK Hynix, Micron Technology and SanDisk are also switching to embedded memory, so microSD cards will become even fewer in the future.
They probably won't all back out of this particular industry segment, but they won't go out of their way to flood the market with the things either.