Marvell announced a few days ago a new mobile controller ,they claim 280MB/s and over 5k IOPS (as far as i can remember). Sandisk also just announced the first 128GB microSD , still slow but better than nothing.
128Gb die is impossible to fix into 10x15 microSD and 11.5x13 eMMC form factor, its die size is too big, eg, Micron 16nm 128Gb chip size: 13.5mm X 12.8mm
In the second paragraph below the table, phenomenal is misspelled as phenominal. Besides that, this is great news! If only they would drop the 16GB minimum and just focus on the bigger sizes. Also, your first paragraph implies that Apple and Samsung do not price gouge on sizes to increase their margins. Everybody does! (except Motorola and HTC, perhaps)
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jjj - Monday, February 24, 2014 - link
Marvell announced a few days ago a new mobile controller ,they claim 280MB/s and over 5k IOPS (as far as i can remember).Sandisk also just announced the first 128GB microSD , still slow but better than nothing.
iwod - Monday, February 24, 2014 - link
Didn't read that anywhere. Is it on Anandtech? Could you post links? Google didn't help.I wonder whats the internal NAND controller Apple are using inside their SoC.
jjj - Monday, February 24, 2014 - link
http://www.marvell.com/company/news/pressDetail.do...timon_comment - Monday, February 24, 2014 - link
Please wait for USF 2.xhttp://www.anandtech.com/show/7696/toshiba-and-qua...
mike55 - Monday, February 24, 2014 - link
I wonder what happened with 128 Gbit dies that Sandisk is using 64 Gbit dies for both this and their new 128 GB microSD.Frank_peng910 - Saturday, March 8, 2014 - link
128Gb die is impossible to fix into 10x15 microSD and 11.5x13 eMMC form factor, its die size is too big, eg, Micron 16nm 128Gb chip size: 13.5mm X 12.8mmevonitzer - Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - link
In the second paragraph below the table, phenomenal is misspelled as phenominal. Besides that, this is great news! If only they would drop the 16GB minimum and just focus on the bigger sizes. Also, your first paragraph implies that Apple and Samsung do not price gouge on sizes to increase their margins. Everybody does! (except Motorola and HTC, perhaps)