Samsung Electronics is undoubtedly a top-most firm in the advanced memory tech industry, and now, maintaining the legacy, it announced that it is gearing up to sampling its 256-GB SD Express microSD card along with a sequential read speed of up to 800 MB per second.
It has also made a start on mass production of its 1-terabyte UHS-1 microSD card. Along with the introduction of its next-generation microSD card line-up, the Korean giants are aiming to deliver differentiated memory solutions required for future generations’s mobile computing and on-device AI applications.
The giants have offered effective solutions to address the growing demands of mobile computing and on-device AI with their two new microSD cards. However, it is the first time that Samsung has introduced a new high-performance microSD card based on the SD Express interface.
The development was the result of a successful collaboration with a customer to create a custom product. With its low-power design and firmware technology optimized for high-performance and thermal management, the SD Express microSD card from Samsung delivers performance similar to SSDs in a small form factor.
Whereas read speeds for traditional microSD cards built on the UHS-1 interface were limited to 104 MB/s, SD Express was capable of boosting them to 985 MB per second; however, the commercial availability of the latter was not within reason for microSD cards until now.
Moving to the sequential read speed of the SD Express microSD card of Korean giants, it reaches up to 800 MB/s, which is 1.4 times faster as compared to SATA SSDs and more than four times faster than traditional UHS-1 memory cards, which leads to enhanced computing experiences in multiple applications, which include PCs and mobile devices. For securing stable performance as well as reliability for the small form factor, Dynamic Thermal Guard (DTG) technology maintains the optimum temperature for the SD Express microSD card, even during long usage sessions. The new 1TB microSD card from Samsung stacks eight layers of the 8th generation 1 TB V-NAND of giants within a microSD form factor, realizing the high-capacity package that used to be possible only in SSDs.
The brand plans to release the 256GB SD Express microSD card for purchase later this year and launch the 1TB UHS-1 microSD card by the third quarter of 2024.
