Samsung announces 64GB moviNAND flash, 32GB microSD card
By Donald Melanson 
posted January 13th 2010 4:01PM
posted January 13th 2010 4:01PM
It's been quite a while since Samsung announced the first actual memory device to result from its 30nm manufacturing process, but it's now back with an announcement for another pair of memory products that should both be hitting the market relatively soon. The larger of those is a new 64GB moviNAND embedded memory device, which joins the company's existing 32GB, 16GB, 8GB and 4GB options, and measures just 1.4mm thick while still packing 16 30nm-class 32Gb MLC NAND chips and a controller. That's joined by a new 32GB microSD card, which fully doubles the capacity of the highest capacity microSD cards currently on the market, and is apparently now being sampled by OEMs with mass production slated to begin sometime next month.
WOOOOOOT
@Evan
Yea, until you see its not even Class 2...
hello obscene transfer times...
Wait, So how does Apple justify those rediculous mark-ups on iPoops...
if 32GB costs me $40, how it Apple charging $200 for the upgrade?
@Evan
32x woop.
iphone HD 64GB
Ipod Touch HD 128GB
@Evan
Yes! My hero is getting an upgrade!
@NAME
every question about something that doesn't make sense that is apple related can be answered by the same answer, which is: it's apple. all of a sudden, all makes sense.
YES!!!!! its about time i've been waiting for a 32gb card forever to replace the 16gb i have in my G1.
What phones support up to 32GB already? I have the Samsung Omnia with a 16GB microSD. It says it can only support up to 16 but do they only say that because 16gb was the highest possible at the time?
@roryoconnor2012 The Droid has built in support for up to 32 GB. Its had it since launch.
@roryoconnor2012
You kno I hate to be the "Droid Does" guy right now, but damnit
Droid Does
@roryoconnor2012
WM phones that support SDHC fully support the standard, and that includes 32GB. 2009 was a stand-still in microSD cards. Its like it never happened. 8GB and 16GB micro SDHC cards cost the same now as they did in the beginning of 2009, they actually increased in cost and came back down.
DDR memory has actually increased a lot over 2009 and still costs more now then it did in the beginning of 2009.
@roryoconnor2012
what are the actual barriers for the support of bigger memory cards? Don't they just need to add 1 addressing bit for everytime the size doubles? If that was the case they could just use 64 bits and be done with it forever.
@Peter F
ALL WINMO devices with SD, SDHC, SD micro, SDHC micro support upto to 32GB a driver is required, Theres a driver on XDA site
Upgraded my old iPaq had 1GB SD Card limit, now supports upto 32GB SDHC Cards
funny, i still have my 64MB SD card for my nokia 6600 :3
Yes! My Droid can now be complete!
Samsung making sd card? Samsung is try to be Sony.
@techlord
ORLY?
@Acey
Ya Rly.
@ChazClout No way!
@alexman98 Way!
@barry99705
C-C-C-COMBOrly?
what device needs more than 16GB on a microsd?
@Dsi2play
Any device that wants to hold my music collection needs more than 32GB. I'm not really interested in carrying around part of my music collection in a portable device, so I'm glad to see the capacities are increasing.
@Dsi2play
I use my Moto Droid as a personal Media player. The ability to add double the music and video would be awesome for me.
@Dsi2play Also depends on what quality you want to put that in. I'm a big fan of FLAC not having to transcode it before putting it on my Nexus one would be nice.
Now all we need are phones with multiple microSD slots. How about a Nexus One with 4 microSD slots! 128GB on your phone! w00t!
@daftrok A single SDXC slot would be better as they are already at 64 GB and upgradeable to 2 TB down the road.
how much??
@JFK
Appendages I'm sure.
I just paid $60 for a class 6 16GB from NewEgg. I'm willing to bet somewhere in the $99-$120 range for at least the first few weeks.
Can't wait for this to show up so I can CraigsList that 16gb business and get **singing** mooooovin' ooonnn upppp!
It's about time my psp is running out of space and thats with the dual CR5400
How much will microSD cards hold in the future? What's the limit on these things?
http://twitter.com/DrJosephKim
@DrJosephKim
I think the limit is 32GB before you have to go to SDXC. That will require a whole new device that supports that format. Plus they actually have to make a micro SDXC. I have been waiting for years for the 32GB.
I want an ipod touch with 20 of those chained inside it.
@(Unverified)
Adding a Mico SD to the iPod touch would be awesome. To the inside is a different story. Correct me if I'm wrong but the write times associated with SDHC are much lower than the memory found inside the iPodTtouch and iPhone.
@bluen25 That may be, but most people care about the ability to expand and store more data than transfer/write speed IMO.
Where's the sandisk version coming out to get the prices down. I'm guessing this will start retailing for about £55 GBP or $90 USD sat here in my armchair.
You know, I still have a 5 inch floppy disk here beside me and here you're saying my fingernail can hold how many libraries of congress?
finally 32GB of memory, I've been waiting a long time for this.
does the HD2 support 32GB MicroSDHC Cards?
Containing my excitement until read/write specs are posted.
@fino35 1 or 2 bits whenever it feels like it.
When you shrink the tubes, less can be pushed through, ya know.
32GB microSD.
Come to me thy I've been waiting for so long.
Do want :D
Thanks palm, for not including microsd on your product line. Its damn near impossible to live in the cloud when you ride nyc subways and this would have been great.
I'm just forever stunned that they can shove 64Gig into something that small.
@Gregorian
THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!!
Wow, that is absolutely incredible.
Video cards with 3 billion transistors and 2GB of RAM, hexacore processors with 16MB of cache, even 3TB 3.5" HDD don't impress me as much as something that is as thick as a fingernail and half as big that can hold 32GB... That is absolutely incredible.
I remember when I bought my first MicroSD card in 2007 it was 2GB and cost about $30, I couldn't believe it then that something with negligible weight and size really could hold 2GB, now 2.5 yers later the very same minuscule form factor can hold 32GB... That seems uber-advanced even for today's technology, I mean I would be equally impressed if a 3.5" HDD could hold 100TB that's what that compares to.
the beauty of these things are that with a decent OS they're hot swappable .. so you can have as much as your prepared to pay for .. now in SUPER-SIZED chunks! .. well ok 32G chunks .. so you get to use your old 1,2,4,8 or 16G card as back-fill.. they are easy to loose though! Mine live in the micro-SD --> SD adapter .. yeah even those can be lost! but when you park them in your card reader that pretty much solves the problem .. until you lose the card reader! ..
Waits for pricing... dum dee doo ..
Quite nice!