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, ...

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 ...

“By collaborating with Lexar, we’re reinforcing the fact that the XQD specification represents one of the futures of high-performance memory cards,” said Nobuaki Sasagaki, General Manager of marketing ...

Nikon announced the Nikon D4, its newest flagship professional DSLR, on January 5. The D4 will be the first to use the latest XQD memory card format, the successor to the venerable CompactFlash. On ...

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 ...

The high-end but nascent memory card format gets a big boost from one of the major manufacturers of flash cards. Also: a fix is in for Lexar's USB 3.0 reader on new Macs. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

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 ...