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SanDisk Introduces World’s First 8-Gigabyte ULTRA II CompactFlash Type I Card; Leads In Capacity and Performance for Memory Stick PRO and SD Formats |
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2004-10-12
SanDisk Introduces World’s First 8-Gigabyte ULTRA II CompactFlash Type I Card; Leads In Capacity and Performance for Memory Stick PRO and SD Formats
Sunnyvale, CA, SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) announced today that its Multi-Level Cell (MLC) and advanced controller technology have allowed it to quadruple the capacity of its high-speed SanDisk Ultra® II cards. SanDisk now offers the world’s first 8 gigabyte (GB) CompactFlash® Type I card and 4GB SanDisk Ultra II Memory Stick PRO™ and 2GB SanDisk Ultra II SD™ cards, and maintains their award-winning minimum write speed of 9 megabytes per second (MB/sec.) and minimum read speed of 10MB/sec.*
The new high capacity SanDisk Ultra II cards are designed to be a reasonably priced, high performance solution for the photography channel and were announced yesterday at the Photokina trade show in Cologne, Germany.
Yoram Cedar, SanDisk’s senior vice president of engineering, said, “SanDisk’s engineers have been refining our NAND/MLC and advanced 32 bit controller architectures over the past 5 years, and we are now beginning to see the full fruits of these efforts. These new Ultra II cards employ our highest density 90nm 4-gigabit (Gb) NAND/MLC single-die tightly coupled with our latest generation controller chips. New high performance algorithms were implemented that maximize the MLC performance while benefiting from the lower cost per megabyte of MLC memory. These achievements in products that will ship in volume production in the coming quarter demonstrate the true power of the NAND/MLC technology that SanDisk and Toshiba have developed through our strategic partnership.”
Jim Handy, director of non-volatile memory at Semico Research Company, said, “The fact that SanDisk is now able to support their high-speed SanDisk Ultra II line of flash cards with MLC NAND speaks very highly of the company’s command of MLC technology. Until now, MLC could not be used in SanDisk’s Ultra line of high-speed flash cards whose higher performance requirements ruled out MLC’s cost savings. The company has found a way to bring MLC’s improved cost structure into the market for top-of-the-line cards.”
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