Time and again, a consistent theme in the card-format industry market emerges. If several competing approaches exist, all able to meet the application needs, but one is more compact than the others, ...

25 Years of CompactFlash: A Look Back at the Pioneering Format In 1994, we saw the debut of a pioneering format for flash memory products that could fit easily in devices like PDAs and digital cameras ...

Sony, Nikon and SanDisk have developed a new high-speed specification for CompactFlash memory cards, making them more suited to HD video recording at higher bitrates, including RAW 3D. They are ...

The top two flash-memory card makers are letting Sony handle the market for the new high-end XQD format--at least for now. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors ...