Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Kingston Digital Rolls Out Ultra High Speed microSD For 4K Video

Fountain Valley-based flash memory maker Kingston Digital is targeting the new 4K and HD video capture market, with a brand new, ultra high speed microSD flash memory card. According to Kingston Digital, its newest product provides UHS-I Speed Class 3, 90MB/sec read, and 80M/sec write, which is specifically aimed at enabling the capture of 4K2K video. Kingston said it is specifically focusing on users such as sports/adventure enthusiasts with smartphones and action cameras. The new memory cards are significantly faster than the SD Association's minimum performance requirements for Speed Class 3 cards, which is 30MB/s read/write.