Samsung's just announced a new variant of the venerable MMC card.  As per its name this new sort of MMC card features OneNAND technology,  which, in a nutshell, incorporates buffer memory, NAND flash memory and a controller on a single chip to speed up performance immensely.  As a result, Samsung claims, OneNAND MMC cards are approximately 10x faster than competing memory cards and twice the speed of regular MMCs.

These cards are now available in sizes between 32 and 256MB.  512MB and 1GB cards will be on sale at the end of the year. (We haven't received word on pricing yet, though.)

It's good that companies are still keeping the MMC format fresh, despite the fact that the format's been more or less superseded by the SD card and rendered practically obsolete by all the physically smaller card formats out there.  The fact that so many devices still work with them - some companies, Nokia among them, are still ardent supporters of the format - ensures that this old memory-card format will be with us for a while yet.

[Via Akihabara News]