Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Seok-heon Lee

Jae-bum Lee

Seok-Jae Han

Gwang-Man Lim

Il-Mok Kang

Seung-Yong Shin

Young-Joon Choi

Jae Young Lee

In-Jae Lee

Seok-Cheon Kwon

Seung-wan Koh

Jae-Phill Kong

Sung-Hoon Lee

Seok-cheon Kwon

Hyoung-Suk Jang

Min-Kwon Kim

A memory card includes a substrate, first row terminals and second row terminals. The substrate has a first pair of side edges extending in a first direction and a second pair of side edges extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first row terminals are arranged adjacent to an insertion side edge of the substrate, the first row terminals including a first power terminal, the insertion side edge being one of the first pair of side edges. The second row terminals are arranged further from the insertion side edge than the first row terminals, the second row terminals including a second power terminal. At least one recessed terminal among the first and second row terminals includes a recess area in an exposed surface of the at least one terminal.

Memory card and electronic apparatus including the same

A memory card is provided to include a substrate having two pairs of edges facing each other, a plurality of first row terminals that are arranged adjacent to an edge at an insertion side of the substrate and include a first voltage power terminal for applying a first voltage and a first ground terminal, a plurality of second row terminals that are spaced farther apart from the edge at the insertion side than the plurality of first row terminals and include a second voltage power terminal for applying a second voltage and first data terminals, and a plurality of third row terminals that are spaced farther apart from the edge at the insertion side than the plurality of second row terminals and include second data terminals.

Memory card

A method of operating a mobile device including an embedded storage having a first capacity includes recognizing, in an application processor of the mobile device, that an external storage is connected to the mobile device, and measuring a performance of the external storage in the application processor of the mobile device. When the performance is equal to or greater than a reference value, the embedded storage and the external storage are constituted into one parallel processing storage, and workload is allocated by memory control module of the application processor to the embedded storage and the external storage based on a first performance of the embedded storage and a second performance of the external storage.

Methods of operating mobile devices and mobile devices

A memory card includes a substrate, first row terminals and second row terminals. The substrate has a first pair of side edges extending in a first direction and a second pair of side edges extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first row terminals are arranged adjacent to an insertion side edge of the substrate, the first row terminals including a first power terminal, the insertion side edge being one of the first pair of side edges. The second row terminals are arranged further from the insertion side edge than the first row terminals, the second row terminals including a second power terminal. At least one terminal among the first and second row terminals includes a recess area in an exposed surface of the at least one terminal.

Memory card adapters and/or a memory apparatuses may be provided. For example, a memory card adapter including a main housing section that corresponds to a memory card socket of a first standard, the main housing section including a card housing section, the card housing section configured to house a memory card of a second standard different from the first standard therein, a first surface of the main housing section defining a through-hole, the through-hole configured to expose a connection pin of the memory card to be housed in the housing section to an outside of the housing section, and a second surface of the main housing section defining a card insertion hole, the second surface being different from the first surface, the card insertion hole configured to receive the memory card into the card housing section may be provided.

Memory card adapter and memory apparatus

A memory card identification device, a host device using the memory card, and a memory card are provided. The memory card identification device includes: a card socket comprising a single card slot through which at least two kinds of memory cards can be inserted and a target port disposed to be in contact with any one kind of a target memory card based on an external characteristic difference between different kinds of memory cards; and a card type detector configured to determine a type of a memory card inserted in the card socket by using a contact state signal of the target port.

Memory card indentification device, host device and memory card using the same

In one embodiment, the memory device includes a first memory area and a second memory area. The first memory area stores secure data. The first memory area is inaccessible by an external device. The second memory area is configured to store encrypted secure data. The second memory area is accessible by the external device, and the encrypted secure data is an encrypted version of the secure data in the first memory area.

Memory device which protects secure data, method of operating the memory device, and method of generating authentication information

A system and method are provided for booting a computing device using a NAND flash memory. Boot code stored in the NAND flash memory is transferred to a RAM for execution by the CPU. Operating system program stored in the NAND flash memory is transferred to a system memory for execution therefrom by the CPU after system boot.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Seok-heon Lee