SanDisk Sony Nikon Improves New Standard for Speed ​​CF Cards

SanDisk, a maker of memory cards, and Sony and Nikon, the digital imaging giants, today announced that they have not completed a new set of specifications for digital memory cards and have submitted them to the CF Association (CFA) to strive to become the industry standard.

This new standard is mainly aimed at the professional photographic field, including top digital SLR cameras and other imaging equipment. The three companies did not publish the name of the standard, only that its form factor is similar to the existing CF card, but the use of data interface based on the PCI-E protocol, the maximum transfer speed of 500MB/s, is just released this month CF 6.0 standard Three times the 167MB/s interface bandwidth (based on the PATA protocol), can greatly enhance the high-speed continuous shooting of digital SLR RAW format and the high-speed data transmission efficiency.

This new memory card standard has a maximum theoretical capacity of more than 2TB and provides access control functions to meet the durability, reliability, and physical robustness requirements that are required in the professional photography field.

After the new standard is submitted to the CFA as an industry standard, it is expected that there will be cameras, camcorders, and memory cards that use this standard. At this time, no specific timetable has been announced.