The 32GB SD card that costs 12 times its weight in gold
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By Barry Collins
Posted on 23 Mar 2010 at 09:27
SanDisk has released the world's first 32GB microSD card, delivering a huge boost to the storage capacity of devices such as smartphones.
The 32GB card is built using a 32nm production process - the same process used to deliver Intel's latest generation of processors. The 11 x 15 x 1mm card consists of eight 4GB memory chips stacked vertically on top of one another, in a quite extraordinary feat of miniaturisation.
The card itself weighs only 0.5g. Given that it's being sold at a suggested retail price of £145, that means it's worth roughly 12 times its weight in gold, according to the latest gold prices quoted by Wolfram Alpha.
The new card doubles the storage capacity of the microSD format, which previously topped out at 16GB. Samsung has also announced a 32GB microSD card based on 30nm technology, but it's yet to appear on the market.
The SanDisk card will go on sale immediately from the company's website, with SanDisk beginning to take orders from smartphone manufacturers now.
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"according to the latest gold prices quoted by Wolfram Alpha"
That's only one better than saying you Googled it.
By peterm2k on 23 Mar 2010 
One better? Typing "what is the price of Gold" into Alpha presents a very informative page, for either the layman or the gold trader, with a historic chart and various weights and measures. It's excellent - and I say that as a former participant in the Gold pricing process. What better resource would you rather was used to get this statistic?
On the flash memory cards: that's a very compact and innocuous way of moving a lot of value around the world...
By Steve_Cassidy on 23 Mar 2010
Ah, well.
My father once asked a friend of his to sell him an "idiot proof" camera. Making the assumption he was an idiot, his friend sold him the most expensive one in the shop!
£145 for extra RAM? Same principle applies for "smart" phone owners I guess...
By cheysuli on 23 Mar 2010
RAM
If this was 32GB of RAM this card would be worth far more than £145!!! Very different things!
By joeletts on 25 Mar 2010
Gates Quote ....
Who was it who said "640k should be enough for anyone"?!
By Dairs on 25 Mar 2010
Mombasa
Lol I'm going to stick with 2GB/4GB SD cards etc for my MP3's in the car, those are ok at best as it is, and trusting your stuff on a 32GB card?? Lol sod that!
I'm sticking with backing my stuff up on DVD or Blu-ray, at least that's a technology you can TRUST.
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Doh better go now, transfer has corrupted again on my SD card, better run a scan and fix AGAIN.
By Mombasa on 29 May 2010
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