Back in 2010, Sandisk, Sony and Nikon announced a joint adventure that would create a new memory standard for HD camcorders and high-res DSLR cameras. This new standard would use the PCIe interface ...

Lexar this week announced plans to launch a new line of XQD memory cards, currently supported only by the Nikon D4 camera. Lexar this week announced plans to launch a new line of XQD memory cards, ...

Photographers using the newer high-end flash memory format now have another supplier besides Sony for the cards. Also: a big, fast SDXC card for a big, fat price. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Sony has announced XQD memory cards that will be compatible with the Nikon D4. A 16GB card will cost $129.99 and a 32GB card will cost $229.99. Sony has announced XQD memory cards that will be ...

“When using Nikon’s DSLR ‘D4,’ XQD memory cards can record approximately up to 100 frames in RAW format in continuous shooting mode,” reads Sony’s press statement. The potential for this format to get ...

We've been eagerly awaiting some of that next-gen XQD memory since it was announced right around a month ago, and now that we have something worthy to pop it in, we're doubly buzzed. Sony's the first ...

The Sony XQD memory card has been announced, which will bring super speedy performance to photo enthusiasts and professional photographers for all kinds of image capture. This timely announcement of ...

The recently announced Nikon D4 D-SLR will be the first camera to use the new XQD memory card standard. XQD is the successor to CompactFlash, which has long been the standard for use in professional ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's fast, and then there's really fast. And with that second bit comes Sony's newest memory cards. The XQD format still isn't a hot one just yet, only being supported by a handful of cameras ...

Sony has set a new memory card speed record, achieving a whopping 168MB/s from its next-gen XQD S-Series cards targeting HD video and high-res photographers. The 64GB QD-S64 and 32GB QD-S32 cards use ...