26G memory card capacity likely by 2012

Cell phone card capacity doubling faster than at Moore's Law rates BOSTON, USA: In the second of two recent reports on the cellphone removable memory card market, the Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies service predicts that the average capacity of a removable memory card for the cell phone market will grow exponentially over the next five years, at an average 120 percent per year, from 517 megabytes in 2007 to 26 gigabytes in 2012. This report, "Cellphone Memory Card Forecast: Card Sales to Grow at 18 percent per Year, Reaching $11 Billion by 2012," also reveals that revenue from sales of removable memory cards for cell phones will grow from $4.8 billion in 2007 to almost $11.3 billion in 2012. The report also concludes that card sales for cell phones totaled 535 million in 2007, up from 309 million in 2006,... [read full story]