Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) will introduce a new Panasonic 1GB Secure Digital card in the Japanese market next month, with worldwide distribution starting in May.

 

: Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) will introduce a new Panasonic 1GB Secure Digital card in the Japanese market next month, with worldwide distribution starting in May.

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The new 1GB SD memory card will be able to store approximately 1300 still images at 3-megapixel resolution with Standard mode compression or about 400 5-megapixel, fine-mode still images. Alternatively, it could hold roughly nine hoursof MPEG4 video (Normal mode) or 40 minutes of MPEG2 (Normal mode) video or approximately 22 hours of music. It also features Panasonic’s Super High Speed data transfer rate of 10MB/s. The high capacity has been achieved by proprietary high-density packaging technology, which has allowed eight 1-Gbit NAND flash memory chips to be combined in one housing. In line with the capacity increase from megabyte to gigabyte, the card label and the package design have been restyled.
According to Panasonic, the capacity increase of SD cards to gigabytes has expanded the possibility of new applications in areas such as professional broadcasting equipment. The company has already unveiled products for a next-generation solid-state memory system carrying the DVCPRO P2 series label. For the future, Panasonic aims at further capacity expansion and speeding up for new applications and for the upgrading of digital networks connected with SD Cards. Published SRPs suggest the new cards will sell for 499 Euro in Germany and US$499.99 in the United States. For more details, visit www.panasonic.co.jp/global/top.html.