News & Reviews:   memory

HONOR has confirmed that it will increase prices across its tablet lineup in response to surging memory and storage chip costs, marking a shift in pricing strategy for one of the world’s more prominent consumer electronics brands. The announcement follows a similar move by Xiaomi, which earlier this month raised prices on several tablet models amid the same industry-wide pricing pressures.

If you read the news about Crucial Memory getting shut down by Micron, this is not really good news for consumers as a whole in the market. But before we get to that, here's the official statement by Micron regarding the exit.

With the rise of AI applications and tools on our smartphones, we can certainly expect more upgrades, such as memory capacity. According to the well-known leakster DigitalChat, he suggested that the next-generation Android flagships could launch with as much as 24GB of RAM.

As the latest Android now supports Adoptable storage – external storage that can extend the size of the internal storage – and even some integration SD cards into the phone itself – the Secure Digital Association, the body that governs the SD Card standard, has announced a new specification called SD 5.1 that introduces the Application Performance Class.

Samsung has just annoucned the industry’s first memory cards based on the UFS removable card standard. The new standard was finalized in March by JEDEC, an industry body that develops standards used in the semiconductor industry, and is based on UFS 2.0.

If you need more space for your stuff in your smartphone, the only way to expand it is with a microSD card. Sandisk has just introduced a beast of a microSDXD card that may catch your eye, as it has 256GB in something as small as your fingernail.