Samsung announces a microSD card capable of high-speed data transfer of 800MB per second and a highly durable microSD card with a capacity of 1TB

Samsung announced on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, an SD Express standard microSD card that can transfer data at 800MB/s. In addition, a microSD card with a capacity of 1 TB that uses Samsung's stacked NAND technology 'V-NAND' has also been announced.

Samsung's New microSD Cards Bring High Performance and Capacity for the New Era in Mobile Computing and On-Device AI – Samsung Global Newsroom

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsungs-new-microsd-cards-bring-high-performance-and-capacity-for-the-new-era-in-mobile-computing-and-on-device- ai

The SD Express standard is a data transfer standard that allows communication at a maximum speed of 985MB/s, but at the time of writing the article, microSD cards of the SD Express standard are not in mass production. Samsung's newly announced microSD card is positioned as the industry's first microSD card compatible with the SD Express standard, and has a maximum read speed of 800MB/s. Samsung claims that the microSD card it announced this time is ``1.4 times faster than SATA SSD, which has a maximum transfer speed of 560MB/s,'' and emphasizes its high transfer speed.

Samsung has also announced a UHS-I standard microSD card with a capacity of 1TB. The 1TB capacity microSD card uses Samsung's 8th generation V-NAND technology, and can 'withstand salt water up to a depth of 1m for 72 hours,' 'operate from temperatures as low as -40 degrees Celsius to as high as 85 degrees Celsius,' and 'Airport High durability is being promoted, such as being able to withstand X-rays at the level of baggage inspection and magnetic fields equivalent to MRI, and being able to withstand drops from up to 5 meters.

In addition, the microSD card compatible with the SD Express standard is scheduled to start shipping in the second half of 2024 with a capacity of 256GB, and the microSD card with a capacity of 1TB is scheduled to start shipping in the third quarter of 2024 (July to September).

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