Press Release: PRETEC Introduces 4GB SD Card, e-Disk II, And Reduces
Price for 12GB CF Card
Pretec Electronics Corp., the inventor of iDisk
Tiny and CU-Flash, the smallest USB flash Drive in the world since 2003, has
released 4GB SD card today, the largest capacity of SD card in the
world.
Pretec 4GB SD card is the newest addition of its high
speed line of 133X SD card, from 256MB to 4GB, with access speed up to 20MB/s,
the fastest SD card in the world so far conform to SD 1.1 specification.
Constructed with 65 nano-meter 16Gb SLC NAND technology, which is typically one
order of magnitude better reliability and 200%-500% faster than MLC NAND. Pretec
133X 4GB SD card is available now for customer sampling with unit price of $699
each, mass production is scheduled by next month.
Pretec also announces the availability of 2GB MMC
4.x card (MMC Plus) today. With 8-bit data bus and 52MHz clock rate, MMC 4.x
card can be 400% faster than today’s SD card commonly available in the
market, or 200% faster than the latest SD 1.1 specification. Effective
immediately Pretec 12GB CF card pricing is reduced from $9999 to $4999. Made by
flash memory devices yet larger capacity than most small form factor hard disk
drive such as Microdrive, Pretec 12GB CF flash memory card is 300% larger
capacity than its closest competitors in the market.
Although SD 1.1 specification and MMC 4.x are new in
today’s market, most consumer and IA devices are being designed-in now, so
end users will soon see the benefit of using Pretec high speed SD 1.1 or MMC 4.x
cards which are backward compatible with older digital cameras, mobile phones or
other IA devices operating with SD 1.0 or MMC 3.x specifications.
Pretec introduces also today e-Disk II, the 1st such
bridging device in the world, an expandable USB flash disk by bundling SD/MMC
cards which supports both SD 1.1 and MMC 4.x. Other than a flexible capacity USB
Flash drive up to 4GB, users can adopt e-Disk II as a low cost and very high
speed USB SD/MMC card reader to transfer data between computers and IA
devices.
Posted: Sun - July 31, 2005 at 06:30 AM