SDXC: New SD Card Format

The flash memory market has been evolving very rapidly over the last few years, but is nevertheless massively affected by the current economic slow down. Among features, the capacity and data transfer speed of our flash memory card have been the main two factors used by manufacturers to offer new/faster products. This is true with the freshly emerging SSD market too.
For our memory cards, massively used today in all handheld devices, from mobile phones to camcorder, we can now store GB of data on a plastic-wrapped card of less than half a square centimeter. Defining new formats is also a way to keep a competitive market alive, and this is especially true for SD card. A new SD format has been announced, the SDXC. It is defined to replace the current SDHC which was implemented to succeed to the previous SD format. With the SDXC we could now get cards featuring storage capacities ranging fro; 32 GB to 2 TB, while data transfer speed should top at 300 MB/s. This looks nice on paper and it will for sure allow manufacturers to apply premium price for such faster SD cards which will most likely be useful only in some high-end camera and/or camcorders. Once the SDXC will have fully invaded the market, it will be time to introduce a new SD format, maybe ultra SDXC…