SanDisk, Nikon and Sony have been busy working their magic and jointly developed the specifications for a faster type of CF memory card. The specifications have been submitted to the Compact Flash Association with the aim of them being adopted as a future standard.
The proposal uses the PCI Express interface to offer transfer rates of up to 500MB/s, rather than the 167MB/s limit of the most recent Compact Flash 6.0 standard. The joint effort should give users of DSLR’s enough throughput to cope with future requirements for bursts of RAW images and large quantities of HD footage. The Compact Flash Association has established a working group that will evaluate the proposal by the end of 2010.
