Samsung Electronics has become the world's first company to develop a 128MB SmartMedia card, representing the next generation of flash memory-based memory cards for portable products. This digital storage medium has the capacity to store up to 560 high resolution (1200x1024) still photographs or 32 CD-quality songs.
The new SmartMedia uses NAND flash memory, based on a 0.18-micron design rule, in an advanced package technology. To date, SmartMedia cards have contained up to two chips, but the new card comes with four 256Mb chips.
According to IDC2000, the SmartMedia card was more popular than any other type of memory card on the market during 1999: 8,5 million units reaching close to 50% of all types of Flash memory cards.
Third generation (3G) mobile phones will be just one type of product to benefit from Samsung's new SmartMedia technology, allowing for advanced audio and video applications on these phones.
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