The top two flash-memory card makers are letting Sony handle the market for the new high-end XQD format--at least for now. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors ...

The CompactFlash Association (CFA) has announced a new high performance memory card format called XQD. The XQD cards are based on the PCI Express specification, and boast write speeds of 125MB/S with ...

Nikon’s just-announced full frame D4 is getting attention for a lot of reasons. There’s the fact that CES is just around the corner, there are all the rumors about the anticipated D800 (we want to put ...

The CompactFlash Association announced on Wednesday that it has adopted a new specification and format to replace the venerable CompactFlash memory card. Tongue-twistingly dubbed "XQD," the PCI ...

Are you ready for yet another memory card format? Dubbed XQD, the medium was first announced by Sandisk, Sony and Nikon in November 2010. And after the the CompactFlash Association finalized the ...

The CompactFlash Association has announced a new memory card format: XQD. The new cards will measure 38.5 x 29.8 x 3.8mm, which is smaller than current CF cards but still slightly larger than SD. The ...

For years, CompactFlash was the memory card of choice for serious photographers, and is still used in many DSLRs, especially at the higher level. But, SDHC has been muscling in on that territory. So, ...