SD Card Association announces Embedded SD standard
By Donald Melanson 
posted Sep 11th 2008 3:06PM
posted Sep 11th 2008 3:06PM
It looks like the SD Card Association association is starting to spread its wings beyond the comforts of removable storage, with it now aiming for a piece of the embedded storage market with its new, appropriately-named Embedded SD standard. Set to actually make its debut in devices this November, the new standard apparently makes use of many tried-and-true SD standards, which the association says should ease platform design in cellphones and consumer electronics devices and speed up widespread adoption. Among other things, the standard includes support both 3.3V and 1.8V power supplies, a flexible partition mechanism to allow for multiple partitions to accommodate various types of data, various data-protection and power-saving measures and, of course, an option to boot from the embedded SD. There's still no word on any specific devices that'll employ the standard, but you can expect them to max out with 32GB of on-board memory and 32GB of removable storage.
Does this mean that we'll get cheap 32 gb mp3players?
So this is like how all cell phones should be the mini usb connector? I guess waiting and watching is the key here.
Actually, most cell phone manufacturers have agreed on MicroUSB. One of the reasons the Treo 800w came with MicroUSB. Who knows how that'll turn out though.
I am so fucking excited about this my nut melted.
" It looks like the SD Card Association association is starting "....
Keep up your awsome proof reading skillzzzzz
How relevant.
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All I care about is when we will FINALLY see 16gb and 32gb microsdhc cards finally released. They were announced almost a year ago.
Hell, I would be happy with the 12gb card that was rumored.
Geez, you are a bit over-spoiled aren't you? you expect and demand 16GB in super-small size as if it's nothing, most people are already astounded that they can put 2GB in the size of a microSD.
Wait...is this a subtle marketing tease that the 4G iPhone (2G 3G iPhone) will have an SD card slot??
The key word here is 'embedded'.
Without reading (I'm too lazy), this appears to be a standard for an actual flash memory chip.
To be honest, is this really worth it? There are a lot of serial flash memory devices out there, and the implementation details of the chip itself is generally not too difficult.
My bad that should have been 3G 3G iPhone (2G 3G) ;)
I hate embedded storage. Hate it!! You can't put more in. You can't mix and match from competitors.
Agreed. I'd much rather have a MicroSD slot than built-in, non-replaceable storage. Especially when it's using the SD protocol, which means there should be no reason an SD slot can't be connected in its place.
The idea seems that you use the same controller and protocol for external and internal, so they can sell devices with SD slots AND pre-fitted flash without needing 2 protocols.
And while doing that they add functionality to SD like booting from it, and partitions that can each have individual write protection.
I hope this doesn't disable the hacks we now use to get custom software on SD supporting devices though :/
Yet another SD format. I could live with this if it was meant to be installed in motherboards. Having a partition for OS and OS recovery (factory defaults) sounds like a good idea.
Will this solve the storage issue on the Wii?