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SanDisk announced the highest capacity microSD card to date: 400GB. This would be sufficient for 40 hours of full HD video. Transfer speed is rated at up to 100 MB/s.
The 400GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card comes just two years after a 200GB version was announced. MSRP is $250.
“We continue to push technology boundaries and transform the way consumers use their mobile devices,” said Sven Rathjen, vice president, product marketing, Western Digital.
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From the Graveyard
You just read about SanDisk. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
Fusion-io built PCIe flash hardware and software that placed persistent storage directly in servers. What became of it?
Fusion-io brought PCIe flash hardware and software that placed persistent storage directly in servers to Storage. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by SanDisk for US$1.1B. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside SanDisk today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about All. A technology from the archive that helped get us here:
Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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