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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 ... |
8 May 2013
06:04 GMT |
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CompactFlash cards have been the fastest type of memory cards ever since they first came out, and they aren't even the oldest sort. Toshiba turned things all the way up to 11 with the Exceria Pro though.
Having a product that can be called world's best, fastest, or any other epithet is something that IT c... |
27 April 2013
02:54 GMT |
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Regardless of how good their photo and video capture devices are, the owners of Digital SLR cameras and professional HD video cameras and video recorders can be limited to less than stellar performance if the memory cards used aren't good enough.
That is to say, not all memory cards have a high enough writing ... |
5 April 2013
05:26 GMT |
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We've heard of many memory cards of 64 GB or larger capacities, but they usually come in form factors that don't fit very small mobile gadgets like smartphones. There are exceptions though, like the product that Transcend revealed the other day.
Long story short, Transcend has formally launched a 64GB mic... |
29 March 2013
05:15 GMT |
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The SDXC and SDHC memory card formats are the highest-end, and physically large, memory cards made for solid camera and video equipment. The new Kingmax series of memory cards stick to them only.
Called Kingmax Pro Extreme Series, the new collection of memory cards is made of three models, since the SDXC comes in 6... |
12 March 2013
12:51 GMT |
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Since it wants to have a stake in all layers of the storage industry, ADATA is not neglecting any device type that uses NAND Flash technology, hence the rather extensive product line it has just launched. By extensive product line, we mean that ADATA has officially introduced no fewer than eight memory cards, all of... |
7 March 2013
05:37 GMT |
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This may not be a MWC 2013 announcement, but Toshiba's newest product could serve tablets and smartphones just fine. In fact, it might become a very widespread piece of hardware if the company plays its card right.
Toshiba's announcement wasn't made at the Mobile World Congress, 2013 Edition, but at ... |
26 February 2013
03:06 GMT |
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Photos and videos caught with a camera can be quite personal, or people may simply decide they don't want others to get their hands on the content for whatever reason.
The problem comes up when someone gets their hands on the memory card used to store them.
Anyone can copy the files off them, and there aren�... |
10 January 2013
10:21 GMT |
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Toshiba may not be ready to launch its wireless memory cards yet, but its research and development team is far enough along that some prototypes can be put on display.
That said, the company intends to use the 2013 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show as a stage of sorts.
The SDHC reference card will use a tran... |
28 December 2012
02:37 GMT |
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While they do vary in performance, CompactFlash cards are the highest capacity and fastest memory cards on the market, which is why they are very well suited to digital cameras and video recorders.
Toshiba's latest collection of CompactFlash cards definitely meets all possible expectations, and then some.
The... |
18 December 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Being a provider of various types of storage devices, Transcend's latest announcement isn't all that shocking, although the release of multiple types of memory cards at once does warrant a bit more recognition than the usual card release. MicroSDHC memory cards, and all other “micro” cards for... |
7 December 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware maker Sony says that it plans to launch a new bundle linked to its PlayStation Vita handheld during the coming week, designed to celebrate the fact that the PS Plus service is now available on the device.
Officially named the PS Plus Instant Game Collection PS Vita Bundle, it will i... |
30 November 2012
09:44 GMT |
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Wireless memory cards are not exactly a totally recent invention, but they are very rare, due to their price and lack of a great customer base. Toshiba decided it could still benefit from launching one though.
The reason Wi-Fi-enabled memory cards aren't exactly super-popular is simple: wireless connectivity i... |
15 November 2012
03:26 GMT |
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Memory card readers are a common sight on notebook spec sheets, but things are different on the desktop market, since normal motherboards don't have integrated card readers of their own.
That is a good thing for peripheral and PC accessory makers though. In fact, Apacer is building on the chance provided by thi... |
6 November 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Nothing is going to match a certain 256 GB Secure Digital Extended Capacity (SDXC) memory card any time soon, but Lexar isn't really trying to do it anyway.
While the company did launch a few more SDXC cards, it didn't try to outdo that one, but rather cover the market segment below it.
Owners of profes... |
2 November 2012
04:12 GMT |
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Kingston's latest product is a strange piece of work, not because of its nature or performance capabilities, but due to the sales policy that the company chose to implement.
For a microSDXC memory card with a capacity of 64 GB, one might say that the price of $100 (77-100 Euro) is more or less fair.
We aren&... |
1 November 2012
04:42 GMT |
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We know that miniaturization adds something to the cost of everything, most of the time, but there are occasions when prices still seem a bit high.
Japanese company Green House has introduced the GH-SDMRXC64G6, a microSDXC memory card for mobile devices.
Its capacity is of 64 GB and the transfer speeds, in line wit... |
10 October 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Some may remember that, back in April, Eye-Fi released a memory card that removed the need for a camera to have special Wi-Fi hardware installed, as it had its own wireless capability.
The main problem with it was that its price was a bit steep: $80 / 61-80 Euro.
Eye-Fi has now revealed that the price is lower, o... |
3 October 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Memory cards can cost a lot, especially if their storage capacity is large, not to mention if the data read and write speeds are high. Kingston has decided to make a series that doesn't completely drain one's finances though.
The company didn't actually give out any prices, but it did describe the ne... |
26 September 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Japanese company Green House has officially introduced the GH-CFS-NSA, GH-CFS-XSA and GH-CFS-XSA flash cards, powered by Jmicron controllers.
The first two CompactFLash cards are made of SLC (single-level cell) NAND Flash chips and come in 2 to 32 GB capacity, while the third uses MLC (multi-level cell) memory and o... |
25 September 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Since this is a time of photo and video camera releases, storage product makers are also launching memory cards, aiming to ride the current stirred by things like Canon PowerShot and Olympus’ XZ-2.
Silicon Power is the one adding its name to the growing list of new memory card suppliers, after SanDisk and Lex... |
19 September 2012
05:30 GMT |
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The CompactFlash association has announced a new type of memory card, so SanDisk decided to quickly provide products based on it, even it is hasn't reached the point where it feels confident enough to mass-produce them.
The new memory card specification is called CFast2.0 and features a theoretical maximum tra... |
18 September 2012
05:14 GMT |
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As a testament to just how far along NAND Flash storage technology has come, Lexar has introduced a memory card with more storage space than many solid-state drives. The new card is of the SDXC type, or Secure Digital Extended Capacity, so it makes some sense that the amount of space would be high. Nevertheless, ... |
17 September 2012
10:39 GMT |
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Lumia 920, the future flagship Windows Phone 8 handset from Nokia, will arrive on shelves without a microSD memory card slot packed inside, leaving users with only 32GB of internal memory to take advantage of.
With the support for MicroSD memory cards newly included in Windows Phone 8, one would have wanted for Nok... |
7 September 2012
19:51 GMT |
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We've seen new NAS devices and needlessly large drive enclosures, so now we may as well cover something from the other end of the storage segment, that of memory cards.
Green House is the company responsible for the existence of the microSDHC card we are bringing you.
Called GH-SDMRHC32GU, it comes in 32 GB ... |
4 September 2012
15:21 GMT |
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There are rugged consumer electronics devices and components, and then there are the Panasonic UHS-I-level SDAB and SDUB series of SDHC and SDXC memory cards.
Objectively speaking, the memory cards do, indeed, qualify as “rugged”. The only reason we don't think that adjective works all that well fo... |
9 August 2012
08:16 GMT |
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The XQD memory card format has been out for less than two years, but already there is cause to develop a more advanced version of the specification, so that's what CFA is doing. The CompactFlash Association has begun development of the XQD 2.0 specification, which utilizes the PCI Express 3.0 interface standar... |
26 July 2012
03:27 GMT |
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We don't know when, where and for how much money you'll be able to buy one of Team Group’s newest memory cards, but we do know everything else worth knowing. Called SDHC UHS-1/Micro SDXC UHS-1, they are made for tablets, phones and driving recorders. As suggested by the UHS-1 specification, the tr... |
17 July 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Apacer has formally introduced a couple of memory cards advertised as ”large-capacity MLC wide-temp SSD with CF and SD interfaces.”
We are tempted to dub the new products SD and CF memory cards, for the sake of simplicity, but Apacer apparently insisted on labeling them SSDs with CF and SD interfaces, s... |
4 July 2012
17:01 GMT |
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It looks like the solution Samsung chose for the problem it had at the beginning of the month is working so well that other suppliers have aped the maneuver.
For those who don't know what we are talking about, demand for NAND Flash memory chip-based products has fallen significantly.
Even with the, admittedl... |
16 June 2012
05:59 GMT |
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The market for memory cards isn't getting any smaller, not by too large a margin anyhow, so ADATA has made a bunch of Secure Digital High Capacity and Secure Digital Extended Capacity models.
For those who don't know or remember, Secure Digital High Capacity is what SDHC stands for, while Secure Digital E... |
13 June 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Small-size channel distributors will find that, to their likely dismay, Samsung won't be shipping them microSD cards anymore, at least for a while. One wouldn't have expected that, even after the whole HDD crisis, however overblown, NAND Flash memory would experience a low demand period. Alas, the flash... |
1 June 2012
13:01 GMT |
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ADATA has added some new memory cards to its lineup, all of which can be safely used in cameras with both performance and endurance requirements.
ADATA's new Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) and Secure Digital Extended Capacity (SDXC) memory cards bear the Premier Pro name.
That name alone might not be eno... |
24 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Memory cards are common nowadays, but there are certain scenarios where they can't really serve, even though they would be perfect due to their size, capacity and performance.
Gadgets and phones don't really demand too high an endurance from SDHC cards, but industrial applications are different.
Most ofte... |
14 May 2012
08:33 GMT |
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Reviewing a piece of technology usually involves benchmarks and other software tests, but things have to change when looking at the physical side of things.
In fact, when examining so-called “rugged” products, people sometimes get creative.
It so happens that the folks at German site Smartphonetech we... |
17 April 2012
10:59 GMT |
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There are some new memory cards for sale in Japan, fit for phones, cameras and anything else that use the microSDHC form factor.
Then again, Buffalo, the maker of the cards, also went to the trouble of bundling the newcomers with adapters that convert them into standard-size SDHC cards (the like used by DSii, Dsi, 3... |
29 March 2012
09:14 GMT |
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It looks like current marketing conditions and customer preferences are creating a fairly clear picture of the future, as far as the NAND Flash memory market is concerned anyway. Digitimes has published its most recent report regarding the likeliest evolution of the NAND Flash chip storage segment. Granted, this i... |
20 March 2012
10:44 GMT |
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There are a bunch of new memory cards making their way towards Toshiba's collection.They will be released in April at the earliest and in August at the latest, this year (2012).The type 1 series have a maximum read speed of 95 MB/s and a write speed of 90 MB/s.Type 2 cards are just as fast when it comes to readi... |
14 March 2012
11:06 GMT |
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Transcend has just announced the availability of a new memory card line, one that is both fast and capacious enough to store up to 13,000 10-megapixel photos.
Memory cards are the only means of storing data that cameras, smartphones and many other consumer electronics and professional devices use.
Transcend, being... |
17 February 2012
05:40 GMT |
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It might not be on par with the performance of Class 10, but Silicon Power's new Class 6 microSDHC memory card should find quite a few customers of its own anyway.Long story short, Silicon Power has released a new, SD 2.0-compliant Class 6 microSDHC card whose capacity if of 32 GB.It is intended for all sorts of... |
11 February 2012
04:50 GMT |
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We said that makers of memory products were doing poorly in terms of finances and, in tune with those reports, SanDisk is revealed to have decided to reduce the prices of its NAND products.
What Digitimes says about SanDisk is not so different from what Kingston was revealed to be doing a few days ago.
Basically,... |
7 February 2012
04:28 GMT |
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Kingston didn't officially say this yet, but rumors are roaming around that it will cut the prices of all its products made out of NAND Flash chips. That is to say, all Kingston USB flash drives, solid state drives (SSDs) and memory cards will end up cheaper by the end of the year (2012). Digitimes is the sou... |
4 February 2012
06:16 GMT |
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SDXC cards are not exactly very many in number, but Silicon Power is eagerly playing its part in changing that, having completed its latest such item.
According to Silicon Power, the SDXC UHS-I 64 GB Class 10 memory card “brings absolutely the best of the transmission speed.”
That is about as bold as s... |
18 January 2012
05:02 GMT |
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One would think that a new and promising memory card standard would be quick to get the support of all companies that would benefit from marketing it, but that does not seem to be the case for XQD.
Looks like only two of the four companies known to be planning on selling XQD cards are actually going to apply haste ... |
17 January 2012
09:25 GMT |
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A few days ago, the SD association announced a certain new standard for memory cards and, now, Toshiba has unveiled the first memory card to comply with it.
Toshiba's exhibition at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2012) includes the FlashAir SD card.
Basically, this is a memory card that compli... |
12 January 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Though already advancing faster than most other tech products, memory cards have accelerated in their evolution yet again, this time thanks to SanDisk, a company that just launched two new SDXC models. It is safe to say that SanDisk has just made the day of professional photographers with no financial constraints. ... |
10 January 2012
03:18 GMT |
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Anyone who thought Lexar Media's 1000x CompactFlash cards were fast may want to take a look at the ones Sony has just announced. They may not be quite as fast as Lexar's CF at accessing data, but they trump them by being as quick to write as they are to read. Dubbed XQD, the memory cards get their name f... |
6 January 2012
03:30 GMT |
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One would say that there already are very fast memory cards, with or without huge storage capacities to match, but Lexar decided they just weren't fast enough.Thus it was that the company came forth and announced the Lexar Professional 1000x CompactFlash (CF) cards.Available in capacities of 16GB, 32GB, 64GB an... |
5 January 2012
11:10 GMT |
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Most people probably don't even know just how many memory cards and card sub-types there are but, just to be on the safe side, BitFenix released a reader that handles them all.
Priced at 23.90 Euro (31.16 dollars), the product revealed a short while ago is advertised as a 35-in-1 card reader.
That means CF, MM... |
4 January 2012
08:38 GMT |
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Hackers have been getting particularly dangerous lately, so Transcend decided that even the smallest storage devices should have high-level protection. What the company did was create some new Copy Protection SD/microSD Memory Cards. With capacities of 2 GB to 16/64 GB, they store data on a CDROM-style partition a... |
3 January 2012
08:41 GMT |
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