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 ...

Sony announced new ultra high-speed XQD and SD memory cards along with adapters for newly launched cameras such as the Nikon D5 and the D500 that were launched at CES. The XQD-M series of cards have a ...

“Dear Santa, I’ve been hoping for new memory cards for Christmas. Can you make them incompatible with all my other cards, only faster, and with a random-letter-generator kind of name, say XQD?” If ...

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 ...