Samsung is Currently Manufacturing an Ultra-High Speed MicroSD with 80MB/s

Samsung has announced that they have started mass producing UHS-1 (Ultra-High Speed-1) microSD cards that are desgnied to match today high-end LTE smartphones and tablets. Samsung says the mass production of the 16GB card began late last month and the card adheres to the specifications laid by the SD Association.

The 16GB memory card uses 20nm-class 64GB chip with toggle DDR 2.0 support and an advanced Samsung controller. As for the speeds, the UHS-1 microSD card can achieve a sequential read speed of up to 80MB/s, which is about 4 times faster than the current breed of microSD cards.

Samsung has confirmed to release these high capacity UHS-1 microSD cards later this year, But we currently have no information about the price of these mermory cards.