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News Release from: Kingston Technology | Subject: MultiMediaCard 4.0
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 07 June 2004
MultiMediaCard enters new generation
Kingston Technology is claiming a technology breakthrough with its development of the first high-performance MultiMediaCard 4.0 (MMC 4.0).
Kingston Technology is claiming a technology breakthrough with its development of the first high-performance MultiMediaCard 4.0 (MMC 4.0) Popular in mobile phones and digital cameras, MultiMediaCards are small, removable nonvolatile memory cards that store photo images, digital music, games, and various other types of data
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Initially, Kingston Technology will be manufacturing MMC 4.0 cards in 256 and 512Mbyte capacities, later to be followed by capacities up to 2Gbyte.
"Kingston Technology is breaking new ground with the development of our MMC 4.0 card and leading the way with MMC technology", said Richard Bull, Director of Marketing, Kingston Technology The most advanced MMC standard available today, the new MMC 4.0 offers next to the highest data transfer rates of 20Mbyte/s read speed and 17Mbyte/s write speed, dual-voltage operation of 1.8/3V and multiple bus widths of x1, x4 and x8bit.
The MMC 4.0 card is backward compatible with all previous versions of MultiMediaCards and host devices.
Production quantities will be available by the end of Q3 this year.
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