The CompactFlash Association (CFA) has announced that a new CFast card and connectors will be displayed at Embedded Systems Conference in Silicon Valley this week.

 

April 17, 2008: The CompactFlash Association (CFA) has announced that a new CFast card and connectors will be displayed at Embedded Systems Conference in Silicon Valley this week.
The new cards are the result of a working group that was formed in July 2007 to develop the CFast specification for a CompactFlash card with a SATA (Serial ATA) interface. Full specifications for the new cards are scheduled for publication in May. Faster data transfer is the key feature of the new cards. The current CompactFlash PATA (parallel ATA) interface provides up to a 133MB/second interface data rate. The SATA interface will provide interface data rates up to 3Gb/sec as well as compatibility with the SATA disk drive interfaces that are increasingly being used.
CompactFlash cards are currently available up to 48GB with sustained data rates of 45MB/sec. The CF+ and CompactFlash Standard ensures that today’s and tomorrow’s digital cameras will be compatible with faster and even higher capacity CF cards, as they become available. The latest CompactFlash published Specification; Revision 4.1 is available to download from the CFA web site at http://www.compactflash.org.