My Kingston 2GB mSD was from Taiwan. "Pickles!", I thought. After all, the 1GB cards from Taiwan were uber-slow compared to the Japanese ones (rebadged Toshiba, apparently). I then ran HDTach on my 2GB Taiwan Kingston and got consistent 18.2 MB/sec reads, making it the fastest of any SD-type cards I own (including A-DATA and Sandisk brands, micro SDs, regular SDs and SDHC - including my Japanese Kingston 1GB mSD). Very nice! YMMV, of course.