Samsung Develops Tiny Memory Card

Samsung Develops Tiny Memory Card
Samsung Electronics has developed an ultra small, fingernail-sized digital imaging flash memory card that is less than one-third the size of existing memory cards.

The ultra small Multimedia Card Micro (MMC Micro), measuring 12x14x1.1millmeter s, stores digital images at a high speed of 7 megabytes per second and reads the data at a speed of 10 megabytes per second.

Samsung Electronics said it can pile up to five NAND flash memory chips into the tiny MMC Micro memory card, thus enabling electronics manufacturers to expand the memory capacity of mobile devices with space constraints while significantly reducing their size.

MMC Micro is only one-third the size of Samsung Electronics’ reduced-size (RS) MMC, which is only half the size of existing standard MMCs (24 x 32 x 1.4 mm).

Moreover, its dual voltage feature, supporting gadgets using 1.8-volt and 3.3-volt electric power, enables electronics makers to use the chip for a wide range of mobile devices from mobile handsets to personal digital assistants (PDAs) and digital cameras.

It added that the memory card boasts of high stability, users being able to write and erase information on the memory card 100,000 times without losing data.

The 128-megabyte MMC Micro can store a maximum of 60 5-mega pixel digital photographs or 50 minutes of high-density video i