16GB microSDHC

Thursday, December 11th 2008 - 22:27 CET - Comments: 0

A dditional enhancements to SDHC memory card lineup include ultrafast, Class 6 SDHC cards in 8GB and 16GB capacities. Toshiba, a leading innovator in flash memory card technologies and solutions introduced a new memory card line-up with the launch of a 16GB microSDHC card offering the largest capacity available in the market. 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 Toshiba SDHC memory cards will start in December, with production of the new Toshiba micro SDHC slated to start in January 2009.

 

Toshiba SDHC memory cards

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

 

 

 

Toshiba 16GB MicroSDHC cards

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.

 

New Toshiba memory cards

 

 

The SD memory card

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 and is currently the world's second largest supplier 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 memory card specifications

 

Toshiba memory cards

Toshiba offers the latest high-capacity, high-performance memory cards, including SD, SD High-Capacity (SDHC), microSD and microSDHC. The entire SD memory 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.

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