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In preparation for the growing demand for smartphone AI, Samsung announced the mass production of two new microSD cards. One is the microSD card, with sequential read speeds of up to 800MB/s. According to the official statement by Samsung, 800MB/s is much faster than UHS-I’s limit of 104MB/s and 1.4x faster than SATA SSDs (560MB/s). SD Express is a microSD card interface launched in 2018 that uses PCIe 4.0 and NVMe interfaces to deliver ultra-high performance and y: Boot support, Trusted Computing Group Storage, and Replay Protected Memory Block authenticated memory. While the SD Express interface has been around, support for the interface . That should hopefully improve with this new card launched by Samsung. The other new card by Samsung is a microSD card, now achieving up to storage. It stacks eight layers of Samsung’s 8th-generation 1-terabit (Tb) V-NAND inside the microSD card, making the microSD card carry comparable storage to full-sized SSDs. The new card also comes with all the standard durability features expected of them, like water protection, extreme temperature, drop-proof design, wear-out protection, as well as X-ray and magnetic protection. The 256GB SD Express microSD card will be available for purchase “later this year”, and the 1TB UHS-I microSD card is set for a launch in Q3 2024. We’ll update you if they ever come to Singapore.