Huawei’s proprietary NM card is finally getting support from prominent storage card manufacturers. After the span of 5 years, Lexar has hoped onto the NM card format manufacturing considering the increasing popularity of Huawei smartphones.

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Lexar 512GB NM Card Features

Lexar introduces a 512GB NM card for Huawei devices. The card can easily fit inside the nano-SIM slot, thanks to its compact size. The pricing and availability details about the new card are not yet live. However, it is expected to feature a price tag of $100, if we consider the pricing of already available 256GB NM cards on Vmall and other retailers.

Lexar NM Card supports eMMC 5.1 protocol which offers reading and writing speeds of 90MB/s and 85MB/s, respectively. The storage isn’t that fast enough that it can compete with the internal storage of smartphones, but can record 4K videos and store other stuff doesn’t eh board?

There will be 128 GB and 256 GB NM cards too, but only the 512GB Lexar card is tested and verified by Huawei Laboratory and Lexar Quality Laboratory.

The Lexar 512GB NM card will be made available via Huawei Mall and Huawei Offline stores.

Other major companies are yet to join the NM Card development, but increasing sales of Huawei Smartphones will make them embrace the development sooner. Apart from the market demand, its complex design and dense storage units require advanced manufacturing technology are some other reasons that prevent the manufacturers from developing NM cards.

Huawei’s Market Trend

Huawei is continuously gaining momentum in the smartphone market with significant sales over the past few months. Thanks to the newly launched flagship smartphones such as the P60 series, Mate60 series, and foldable Mate X3. Huawei’s H1 2023 revenue from terminal devices increased by 2.2% year-on-year basis.

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