05 years Chinese flash card 24 million 512MB standard capacity

Global resources (Global Sources) recently published "China sourcing report: flash memory card and a card reader" (China Sourcing Report: Flash Memory Cards & Readers); report Chinese, manufacturers will export value of $324 million in 2005. The flash memory card and a $25 million 200 thousand card reader - 2004 100% and 20% respectively.

In addition, manufacturers focus is shifting to the miniSD card (Mini Secure Digital) and RS (Reduced-Size MultiMediaCards) multimedia card, the two card size is about half of the original size.

"Chinese sourcing report: fast memory card and the card reader" Ma Si Li (Mark A. publishing Saunderson) said: "the survey by market research firm IDC shows from 2004 to 2008, flash memory cards market will be 38% compound annual growth rate of sustained growth. To meet market demand, Chinese manufacturers plan to produce 24 million flash memory cards in 2005, more than doubled in 2004, as well as the 6 million 600 thousand card reader, an increase of more than 20% in 2004."

In addition, in order to meet the advanced mobile phone camera and digital camera to the memory card, the surveyed manufacturers are developing larger capacity products. They predicted that 512MB will be the standard storage capacity in 2005, and 1GB will become the mainstream of the future standards.

"China sourcing report: flash memory card and card reader" introduced 43 leading exporters. The report describes the major and emerging supply market conditions, and perspective of the industry's production capacity, production and research and development expenses and other issues.