Western Digital Releases 4TB Capacity SD Memory Card:
The SDUC standard, defined in 2018, finally came in handy. SanDisk, a Western Digital company, has just released the Extreme PRO 4TB, which is the giant of memory cards.
While common SDXC memory cards allow for a maximum storage capacity of 2TB, the SDUC standard expands the capacity cap to 128TB.
The SanDisk Extreme PRO 4TB is currently only available on paper, and there is no device yet that can support SDUC standard memory cards. Some gamers may complain that it still uses the "old-fashioned" UHS-I interface, and the transfer limit of 104MB/s is actually enough to meet the needs of most applications, and with a suitable card reader, it can achieve a read speed of 200MB/s.
Like the SDUC standard, SD Express has been withdrawn for many years, but this high-speed memory card with PCIe technology is not very widely used. In February, Samsung announced that it would launch its first 256GB 800MB/s SD Express memory card by the end of the year. Now Western Digital has decided to follow suit, and the SanDisk SD Express memory card will be available this summer: with a read speed of 880 MB/s, which is 4.4 times faster than the UHS-I SD memory card!
Intel Lunar Lake provides over 100 TOPS AI computing power:
At Vision 2024, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger publicly demonstrated the Lunar Lake chip.
Pat Kissinger said that Lunar Lake will be the "flagship SoC" for the next generation of AI PCs. Currently, Meteor Lake's total computing power is 34 TOPS (of which NPU contributes 11 TOPS), while Lunar Lake's AI computing power will be increased by 3 times to more than 100 TOPS, of which 45 TOPS will come from NPU.
According to Microsoft's AI PC requirements, NPU performance should reach 40 TOPS, and Lunar Lake, which is scheduled to launch at the end of this year, fully meets this requirement.