Toshiba Corporation has announced the global launch of the latest addition to its new series of high-capacity SDHC memory cards: the industry’s first 8Gbyte Class 4 memory card. The new card will be introduced in early January 2007, alongside the 4Gbyte products launched in September, and will give Toshiba a larger commercially available lineup in high performance SD memory cards. The SDHC (SD High Capacity) memory card is based on the SD Card Association’s SD Specifications Ver 2.00, which defines high capacity, high performance enhancements to market-leading SD memory cards.

The new card meets the Class 4 standard, a speed standard that requires a data write speed of at least 4Mbyte/s.

Toshiba is the first company in the industry to announce the launch of a Class 4 8Gbyte SDHC memory card.

SDHC memory cards are expected to find widespread application in digital video and still cameras, and Toshiba is enhancing global distribution of its new cards.