Toshiba Set To Ramp MicroSD Production

Written by Adam Gosling

Friday, 21 July 2006

Toshiba plans to start mass producing micro-SD memory cards next month with the intention of adding three to four million of the world's tiniest format storage cards a month. This story on Forbes says the sale price of a 1GB card is expected to be about US$85. Toshiba also plans to release next year a two-gigabyte micro-SD card capable of storing around 500 songs. Forbes says that high production costs and a lack of compatible electronic devices on the market have until now kept Toshiba and other makers of SD cards, which include Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, from venturing into mass production. Related news items Toshiba Gets Serious With New Gaming Laptop -27/06/2007 Toshiba Becomes Latest AMD Customer -27/06/2007 New Toshiba Qosmio Slightly Smaller -27/06/2007 SAGEM my401C Gets Pretty In Pink -10/04/2007 Samsung Quits Notebook Business -29/01/2007 Newer news items Samsung Puts 1GB Storage On A SIM -09/11/2006 160 GB WD Drives Have Own Shock Prevention -18/09/2006 Flash Phone Storage Hits 4GB As It Heads For 32GB -14/09/2006 External Storage For Your Phone -21/08/2006 AOL To Offer Free On-Line Back-Up -05/08/2006 Older news items Fastest CF Cards Now 40MBps Read/Write -20/07/2006 New Storage Card Standard Increases Capacities -19/07/2006 8GB 133X CompactFlash From Lexar -19/07/2006 Solid State Drives Could Replace Hard Drives -17/07/2006 Run Windows Apps From Your USB Drive -13/07/2006 Tag This Now: