Olympus Imaging Australia will release an xD-Picture Card with a capacity of 1GB early in 2005.

 

September 28, 2004: Olympus Imaging Australia will release an xD-Picture Card with a capacity of 1GB early in 2005.
The new M-xD1GM Picture Card cards are the highest capacity xD-Picture Cards yet developed, and feature MLC (Multi Level Cell) technology to achieve a maximum capacity of 1GB. When shooting photos with an Olympus digital camera set to HQ mode (the default image-quality setting), a 1GB xD-Picture Card can hold approximately 500 8-megapixel images. M-xD1GM xD-Picture Cards are currently the most compact (20 x 25 x 1.7 mm) digital camera storage media to offer 1GB capacity. For details, visit www.olympus.com.au.