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SD Association (SDA) today announced the winners of its 2026 SD Express Student Competition, an international university program designed to inspire new applications for microSD Express technology in emerging computing systems.

SD Association (SDA) today announced the winners of its first SD Express Student Projects Competition: Shira Barmats and Shaked Levi from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology for their “Remote PPG-based Vital Signs Monitoring” submission that won a cash price of $20,000 USD and who will be invited to present at a future SDA trade show.

SD Association (SDA) is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the venerable SD memory card launched in 2000 and its long history of improving the lives of billions of people globally in numerous ways. Throughout the last 25 years, SD and microSD memory cards have sold more than 12 billion cards and evolved by offering massive storage capacities and lightning fast speeds, meeting industry needs. SD memory cards remain the most used removable storage card for consumer electronic devices.

SD Association (SDA) today announced the latest evolution of SD Express memory cards doubling microSD Express memory card speed up to 2GB/s, plus four new SD Express Speed Classes to ensure guaranteed minimum sequential performance levels in the new SD 9.1 specification including support of Multi-stream access and related Power and Thermal Management assuring the guaranteed performance. SD 9.1 helps consumers identify the right card for their device while giving manufacturers new tools to assure minimum level of performance of SD Express memory cards and have means to guide consumers what type of cards will assure specific application operations.

SD Association (SDA) today announced three advanced security features in the new SD 9 specification: Boot support, Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Storage and Replay Protected Memory Block (RPMB) authenticated memory. SD 9 gives device manufacturers the ability to use an SD memory card for all memory and storage needs, simplifying future device upgrades or repairs and enhancing security capabilities for applications when the cards are tightly bound to specific hosts.

SD Association (SDA) developed the SD Express/UHS-II Verification Program (SVP) to verify the electronic interfaces of members’ UHS-II and SD Express card/host/ancillary products. Products passing SVP may be listed on the SDA website as a Verified Product. SVP provides both consumers and businesses higher confidence that products passing SVP meet the interface standards, ensuring compatibility.