SanDisk microSD card shipments exceed 2 billion in 10 years


Sandisk Ultra 200GB microSD

SanDisk Corporation has announced it has shipped more than two billion microSD cards since it started commercial shipments 10 years back. SanDisk invented the microSD back in 2004, which was  initially known as TransFlash. The final specifications for the microSD format was released on July 13, 2005. The first microSD cards featured capacities starting at 32MB. SanDisk recently introduced a 200GB microSDXC card, a 6,250x increase in just 10 years.

It took three years for CompactFlash cards to reach one million shipments, in contrast over one million microSD cards were shipped in the first full quarter of availability, said the company.

SanDisk iNAND 7232

SanDisk also introduced iNAND 7232, eMMC 5.1 flash memory for mobile at Mobile World Congress Shanghai. It features SanDisk’s second-generation SmartSLC technology and boasts sequential write speeds of up to 150MB/s that can further be increased to 1.2 gigabit (Gb) per second and beyond when application performance demands it.  It offers sequential read speeds up to 280 MB/s. Samples of iNAND 7232 is now shipping for OEMs in capacities of 32GB to 128GB.


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