Toshiba Corporation announces launch of new series of SD memory cards

(ANI) July 16

The latest edition of its line-up of EXCERIA memory cards designed to offer users of high-end digital cameras an excellent experience.

To be launched in major markets worldwide, starting with Japan, the EXCERIA PRO series will offer photographers a data write speed of 240 MD/sec, the world's fastest, while the EXCERIA series will write at 120 MB/sec.

They will allow digital camera users to shoot still images continuously at high speed.

The cards are the first in the EXCERIA line-up to integrate a newly developed controller complaint with UHS-II the ultra high speed serial bus interface defined in SD memory Card Standard Ver.. 4.10, and they achieve significantly higher data transfer speed than earlier UHS-I complaint cards.

While digital cameras have made huge strides in image quality and versatility, users have long wanted to see improvements in data transfer rates and write times, so as to be able to takes bursts of photographs in quick succession.

This demand has grown increasingly strong has high performance digital single-lens reflex cameras and mirror-less interchangeable-lens cameras have gained popularity and moved into the mainstream.

Further advances in higher resolution image recording (including 4K2K video), will also fuel demand for transfers of data-rich images at high speed.

Looking to the future, Toshiba, a world leader in the NAND flash memory business, will continue to meet market demands by enhancing its line-up of UHS-II complaint SD memory cards.