MicroSD cards will become mainstream in the memory card market in the second quarter of this year due to increased popularity of MicroSD-supported handsets and a rise in the number of MicroSD card makers, stated Wallace Kou, president and CEO of Taiwan-based IC design house Silicon Motion Technology. About 20% of the projected global shipments of 900 million handsets for 2006 will come with a memory slot, as compared to 10% in 2005, Kou noted, citing market data.

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