Kingmax start its 8GB SDHC card (class 2) production. The Ver.2.0 SDHC card has a capacity ranging from 4GB to 32GB, fully meeting the massive capacity requirement for high-quality image and music data storage now and in the future.

With advances in digital technology, powerful multimedia audio/video functions bring endless fun to everyday living. Today, digital cameras and DV camcorders are capable of recording high definition images, providing us the convenient luxury of eternally preserving that extraordinary moment anytime, anywhere. However, to record these high-definition images, especially the ever-popular 1080P images, large-capacity storage is required, frequently in terms of gigabytes. Thus, storing such massive amounts of data has become an urgent problem to be resolved for many consumers.

The SDHC cards are given speed class ratings for their minimum sustained write speed, i.e.

• Class 2 for 2MB/sec,
• Class 4 for 4MB/sec
• and Class 6 for 6MB/sec,

which are an improvement over Ver.1.1, ensuring uninterrupted recording and playback of high-resolution images. In the future, the drop in production costs for SDHC memory card could very well make current storage media, such as VCD, DVD and hard disk drives, obsolete. Imagine getting a SDHC memory card when you rent a movie at Blockbuster!

SDHC digital cameras that are already in the market include Canon S3IS, Nikon Coolpix S5/S6/D80, Pentax Optio M10/W10, Panasonic SDR-S200, Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD1 and Casio Z1000. Mobile phones implementation is yet to be done.