"Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has developed the industry's highest density MMC card (popular removable MultiMediaCard for portable electronics) based on its most advanced MLC (multi-level cell) NAND flash memory. It also has developed the highest performing MMC card, based on SLC (single-level cell) NAND flash, in rounding out its large portfolio of MMC memories. With added density and higher performance, the new Samsung MMCplusTM cards are designed to greatly enhance user convenience for a variety of mobile applications. Based on Samsung's 8-gigabit (Gb) NAND flash memory, the MMCplus card will be introduced with an 8-gigabyte (GB) density, allowing it to store 2,000 MP3 music files or eight hours of DVD-quality movies. The 8GB card will be part of a full line up of MLC-based MMCplus cards that also will include 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB offerings."
It wasn't too long ago that we were looking at 4GB SDHC cards. Well, feast your eyes on this 8GB MMCplus card from Samsung. Unlike SDHC, MMCplus is backward-compatible, so there's a good chance that this thumb-sized behemoth could work with existing MMC-capable Pocket PCs.
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Introducing a new memory card format with s completely new form factor (that we tech-heads will bitch about). This seems to be happening every other week.
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Introducing a new memory card format with the same form factor as a previous one but is incompatable with older devices (that your average consumer will be confused by). If it weren't for the square pegs and round holes forced into consumer eletronics to protect the average Joe from eletrocuting or blowing themselves up there wouldnt be anyone left to buy anything. Heck, I still know people who plug AC adaptors into devices that take DC with the polarity revered 'because the plug looked like it would fit'.
The format that will survive and grow will be the one that gets an early foothold in the marketplace and initial backwards compatability is key to that foothold. On that basis alone the smart money is on MMC+
Or put another way:
Does anyone here remember the 5 Volt only Smart Media cards?
okay...SDHC cards won't work in devices that aren't designated SDHC compatible...but aren't there 4GB standard SD cards out there? Sandisk's website (about the SDHC stuff) seems to imply that the technology used in SDHC cards is required to make cards in this form factor at 4GB and above, yet I could swear I've seen regular SD cards at 4GB, and I thought that I'd maybe even seen an 8GB SD card listed somewhere, though I may have just been seeing things on that last count.
Samsung Adds Beef: 8GB MMCplus Card
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