Amid falling prices and an inventory glut, yet another flash memory format is trying to rise above an increasingly crowded market. Panasonic's Secure Digital, which was co-developed with SanDisk and ...

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 ...

25 Years of CompactFlash: A Look Back at the Pioneering Format In 1994, we saw the debut of a pioneering format for flash memory products that could fit easily in devices like PDAs and digital cameras ...

Handheld computing leader Palm and electronics conglomerate Panasonic announced Tuesday that they would offer free Secure Digital media cards with the purchase of select products. The move is meant to ...

Flash memory card formats continue to proliferate thanks to the announcement last week that Olympus and Fujifilm have jointly developed a new flash memory card format, called xD-Picture Card. They ...

Blow up the balloons, bake a cake and spray a bottle of champagne: the humble SD card is celebrating its 25th birthday! Throughout the last 25 years, SD and microSD memory cards have sold more than 12 ...

The smaller the flash memory, the smaller the mobile phone. At least I think that’s the rationale behind Sandisk’s new ‘T-Flash’ flash memory format, announced as being “about the size of a fingernail ...

In Defragging: Why, How, and Whether, I warned that defragging can wear out solid state drives. Howard Meyer asked if it was safe to format flash drives and memory cards. Regular defragging can wear ...

Here are the best free USB flash drive format tools for Windows 11/10 that you can use to format a USB or flash drive: USB Disk Storage Format Tool. Rufus. PenFormat EaseUS Partition Master Free ...

Next-generation automotive systems are advancing beyond the limits of currently available technologies. The addition of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and other advanced features requires ...