Sony and SanDisk combine to give rise to memory cards Memory Stick Pro Extended High Capacity, "a name that is not yet final, but set the perfect tone.
This new generation of the format of memory card from Sony will go up to 2TB of capacity, as SDXC cards recently announced by Panasonic. They are however a little slower, since Sony and Sandisk have announced a rate of 60 Mb / s, against 100 to 300 Mb / s announced at Panasonic.
The two accomplices also announce another format, "Memory Stick Micro HG", which will succeed the current cards Memory Stick Micro. As its name suggests, these cards take a miniature, and the new generation will be faster thanks to an 8-bit parallel interface, with a frequency of 60 MHz. This will allow these cards to reach a theoretical maximum throughput of 60 Mb / s, if the memory read, obviously. In comparison, the current Memory Stick Micro cards have a 4-bit interface to 40 MHz.
All declinations combined formats, Sony expects to exceed 500 million Memory Stick cards sold in 2009.
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