TOSHIBA TO LAUNCH 16GB microSDHC

[Simond]

Toshiba Corp. (Toshiba), a leading innovator in memory card technologies and solutions, and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)*, its subsidiary in the Americas, today reinforced their memory card line-up with the launch of a 16GB microSDHC card offering the largest capacity available in the market3 . At the same time, the company extended its range of industry-leading memory card solutions by adding ultra fast read/write 8GB and 16GB SDHC cards to its line-up. Mass production of the new SDHC cards will start in December, with production of the new microSDHC slated to start in January 2009.

All of the new SDHC memory cards comply with the SD memory standard Ver. 2.00, and the two new SDHC cards announced today support class 6 ultra fast read/write speed—a maximum write speed of 20MB per second4 , delivering high performance for continuous shooting of still images and recording video images. The new cards meet strong market demands for cards combining high capacities with high speed data read and write. The new microSDHC can be used with an adapter that allows it to be used in SDHC slots.

Demand is growing fast for larger data storage in portable digital consumer products. Micro SDHC cards provide a solution for mobile phones, while SDHC memory cards support other digital consumer products.

The high-level specifications and wide range of memory cards announced by
Toshiba will allow third-party developers to bring exciting applications to future generations of consumer products. Toshiba will continue to meet market demand by further expanding its SD memory card series.

Key Features

1. microSDHC Memory Card
   
   
   
   • Large 16GB capacity in a microSDHC Card. Can store 270 hours5 of music at a bit rate of 128kbps6 .
     
     
   • "Class 2" SD Speed Class
     
     
   • Integrates highly secure CPRM7 copyright technology.
   
   
   
   
2. SDHC Memory Card (Ultra High Speed Type)
   
   
   • Realizes maximum write speed of 20MB per sec.
     
     
   • "Class 6" SD Speed Class
     
     
   • Integrates highly secure CPRM copyright technology.
   
   

[Simond]

Cards
The SD memory card was jointly developed in 1999 by Toshiba Corporation, SanDisk Corporation and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (now Panasonic Corp.) SD memory cards have been widely adopted worldwide. Toshiba has shipped more than 300 million memory cards 8 and is currently the world's second largest supplier 9 of NAND Flash memory. The addition of these new SDHC cards to the Toshiba SD Card family addresses the growing demand for high capacity storage.

Toshiba offers the latest high-capacity, high-performance memory cards, including SD, SD High-Capacity (SDHC), microSD™ and microSDHC. The entire SD card line features cryptographic security, protection of copyrighted data, high-data transfer rate for fast copy/download and high storage capacity. TAEC currently offers SD Memory Cards with storage capacities of 1GB and 2GB in its standard (blue) Class 2 product family, a higher performance (black) family of Class 4 cards, and the new ultra fast (white) Class 6 Cards. The Toshiba SDHC Memory card line-up now includes microSDHC cards in capacities from 2GB to 16GB, and a selection of SDHC Cards in various speed classes with capacities of up to 32GB.

[Joachim]

I Am Just wondering how much of data We can fit in little monster.

[Kelsey]

Now if only the iPhone had a microSD slot!

And yes, I did mention the iPhone, but at least I didn't say, "These r a ripoff of an Apple product!", like iEye would have.