SAMSUNG 8GB SD Memory card





SAMSUNG Develops Mobile Phone Memory Card with Record Storage Capacity





Seoul, Korea - May, 17, 2007: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world
leader in advanced semiconductor technology solutions, today announced
that it has developed an 8Gigabyte (GB) microSD (Secure Digital) memory
card, a size optimal for todays multimedia mobile phones. Featuring the
highest capacity today for a microSD card, the new fingernail-sized card
is capable of storing 2,000 MP3 music files, 4,000 digital photos, or
approximately 5 DVD-quality movies.

SD cards, to date, have been largely used for data storage in digital
still cameras and increasingly in televisions. MicroSD cards, which are a
quarter the size of an SD card, are backward compatible with SD cards
using an extender, to allow multimedia files downloaded by mobile phones
to be easily displayed on other media.

With a read speed of 16 Megabytes (MBs) per second and a write speed of
6MB/s, Samsungs 8GB microSD card well exceeds the Speed a*s 4 SDHC
(Secure Digital High Capacity) standard which requires a data write speed
of 4MB/s. This is also much faster than the SD Speed a*s 2 designation
carried by most competing microSD cards currently on the market.

This achievement is the latest in a string of record-breaking improvements
in flash memory cards for Samsung as it continues to aggressively pursue
its goal of being the development leader for the SD card market, as well
as the competing MMC (multimedia card) market.

The market research firm Dataquest predicts that the memory card market as
a whole will average 10 percent annual growth between 2006 and 2010, while
demand for high density 8GB cards will grow an average of 2.6 times per
year over the same period. By 2010, the 8GB memory card will be the market
mainstream in terms of units sold.