Friday, October 4, 2002
Matsushita Develops 1GB SD Memory Card
Posted by Jason Dunn in "HARDWARE" @ 10:41 AM
http://www.twomobile.com/content/1309.php
1 GB of storage capacity and faster speeds to boot? I'm in love. The article also mentions an incredible 16 GB capacity by 2005.
. Those capacities are getting to the point where I'd rather use SD than a hard drive, assuming the speeds are up to snuff. Imagine switching to another OS by simply putting in a memory card. I know you can do that now with IDE drives, but SD cards are smaller and more durable.
I wonder what will happen to CF? Will it continue to scale, or will it slowly die off? The capacities for MultiMediaCards (MMC) are lagging behind SD in a big way, so it's tough to back anything other than SD (even though it's a proprietary standard that others have to pay royalties on to use).
"Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. has unveiled a working prototype of a SD (Secure Digital) memory card with a 1G byte capacity, at the Ceatec 2002 exhibition. The company, which is better known by its Panasonic brand name, said the card is not expected to go on sale until around one year from now when a larger market for such a capacity card exists and production costs have fallen. The card will be the first SD memory card to take advantage of a higher speed interface that will be able to shift data between the card and device at up to 20 Mbps (bytes per second) -- double the speed of current 256M-byte and 512M-byte cards and 10 times the speed of cards that are up to 128M byte capacity."
Source: pt
1 GB of storage capacity and faster speeds to boot? I'm in love. The article also mentions an incredible 16 GB capacity by 2005.
. Those capacities are getting to the point where I'd rather use SD than a hard drive, assuming the speeds are up to snuff. Imagine switching to another OS by simply putting in a memory card. I know you can do that now with IDE drives, but SD cards are smaller and more durable.I wonder what will happen to CF? Will it continue to scale, or will it slowly die off? The capacities for MultiMediaCards (MMC) are lagging behind SD in a big way, so it's tough to back anything other than SD (even though it's a proprietary standard that others have to pay royalties on to use).
"Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. has unveiled a working prototype of a SD (Secure Digital) memory card with a 1G byte capacity, at the Ceatec 2002 exhibition. The company, which is better known by its Panasonic brand name, said the card is not expected to go on sale until around one year from now when a larger market for such a capacity card exists and production costs have fallen. The card will be the first SD memory card to take advantage of a higher speed interface that will be able to shift data between the card and device at up to 20 Mbps (bytes per second) -- double the speed of current 256M-byte and 512M-byte cards and 10 times the speed of cards that are up to 128M byte capacity."
Source: pt
