Toshiba Launches Its Latest 4GB SDHC Memory Card

Only a few days after SD Card Association (SDA) has launched a new standard - the 2.0 - Toshiba Corporation announced that it will soon ship to the worldwide retail market its latest development for the dedicated segment - the Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) memory card with a storage capacity of 4GB, informs Daily Tech.

"Our new SDHC cards are an important development in the SD card family to provide higher capacity storage to support video storage applications in camcorders and digital cameras," said Brian Kumagai, business development manager, NAND Flash, for TAEC.

Toshiba representatives said that the company's latest memory card will feature a minimum SD Speed Class Rating of 4 MB/s, an innovation if you are to consider the fastest 2GB SD cards now available on the market, which deliver an average minimum write speed of 20 MB/s. Moreover, Toshiba promises to increase the capacity by no less than 32 GB.

Unfortunately, even if the memory card features an enhanced storage capacity, it is said that, up until now, the new SDHC cards are not compatible with existing SD card slots and readers and that the card supports CPRM3 copy protection.

Due to the fact that most of the handheld manufacturers, the main backers of such miniature storage solutions, didn't have time to develop the necessary equipment needed for the mass production of SDHC cards compatible devices, Toshiba, and others NAND Flash market leaders, could face several issues. More precisely, their products may end up on the shelves collecting dust until someone decides to create dedicated slots on its devices.

"In the future, cards up to 32-gigabytes can be developed that conform to this standard. These higher capacity memory cards are intended for use in applications such as digital video cameras and digital cameras capable of recording video segments and high-resolution pictures, or to provide storage for a larger number of digital photos," Toshiba representatives added.