Jason Dunn
01-25-2005, 07:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.eet.com/semi/news/showArticle.jhtml;?articleId=57703239' target='_blank'>http://www.eet.com/semi/news/showArticle.jhtml;?articleId=57703239</a><br /><br /></div><i>"A Taiwanese technology consortium is putting the finishing touches on a new memory card format that it says is compatible with the popular Secure Digital and MultiMediaCard formats already in the market but offers speeds twice that of USB 2.0 at a cheaper price. The Taiwanese card format is dubbed M¼-Card, which stands for micro ¼ card, and it is backed by a handful of local card makers, system designers and IC design houses. Also backing the effort is a quasi-government research group, the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), which coordinated the effort."</i><br /><br />There have been more memory card formats announced in the last six months than in the last six years - I'd normally greet the announcement of a new format with a derisive snort :roll: but this may hold some promise. If it's compatible with SD and MMC we have no issues of needing new slots in our devices, and the boasted speed is 960 Mbps, which is shockingly fast. 8O That's 120 MB/s, which is a huge jump beyond what we have right now. And if it's less expensive as well, I say bring it on!