The Next Flash Format?

[James Fee]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20040805A4013.html' target='_blank'>http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20040805A4013.html</a><br /><br /></div>"Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and some local IT firms will soon mass produce a new type of memory card called “μcard”, which will be unveiled during the Taipei International Electronics Show (Taitronics) from October 8-12, according to sources. <br />The new cards are expected to be local IT firms’ chance to reduce technology reliance upon oversea makers, sources commented. Module makers in Taiwan and China currently license technologies from overseas competitors."<br /><br />I'm not even sure what to say here. :roll: <br /><br />Though I do give <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L33t">l33t</a> points for the name.

[dean_shan]

Link to PPCT thread (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=272095) on the topic.

[James Fee]

Yea, I saw the topic over there after I submited this. All I can say is wishful thinking... No details at all. How much will it cost. How quickly do they expect to get to 2TB. Who are their partners?

[Suhit Gupta]

Not to say that PPCT isn't doing a fantastic job, but if only I wasn't so preoccupied with DOOM 3 over this last week, we would have had this post up on DMT before them :).

Having said that, 2TB sure seems sweet. I am sure the cost will have about as many zeroes as no. of bytes of storage in that card.

Suhit