Monday, September 12, 2005
Samsung Announce Larger Flash Memory Chips: 32Gb on the Cards
Posted by Jonathon Watkins in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 05:00 PM
"Samsung Electronics has announced a new flash memory chip that should pave the way for removable memory cards that can hold up to 32GB of data. . . . The new chip will allow memory-card makers to design cards with a capacity of 32GB by putting 16 of these chips into a single card. To put that into perspective, a 32GB memory card would be able to store 8000 MP3 audio files or 20 DVD-quality movies in a handheld device such as a mobile phone, according to Samsung. . . In addition, the SD Card Association, an industry group established to promote the card format, has said SD cards with a capacity of 8GB are in the pipeline, but it has not said when they will be available."
Excellent news. I still can't get over the thought of one tiny SD or CF card containing thirty two gigabytes of goodness. (That was Thirty Two Gigabytes of Storage btw!). As Samsung say, that's a lot of MP3s. Commercial production of the flash memory chips is planned for the second half of 2006 and so far no memory-card makers have committed to producing 32GB memory cards, but give them time. With tech toys such as these, it's like Christmas as a kid; the future never arrives fast enough ;-)
Excellent news. I still can't get over the thought of one tiny SD or CF card containing thirty two gigabytes of goodness. (That was Thirty Two Gigabytes of Storage btw!). As Samsung say, that's a lot of MP3s. Commercial production of the flash memory chips is planned for the second half of 2006 and so far no memory-card makers have committed to producing 32GB memory cards, but give them time. With tech toys such as these, it's like Christmas as a kid; the future never arrives fast enough ;-)
