SanDisk and Sony announced on Monday that they will develop a new media card standard together, known as SxS. It will be designed for use in digital camcorders, such as Sony’s upcoming XDCAM EX series, and is expected to provide superior data transfer rates and smaller size than the previous generation of mass-storage cards.
SxS cards will take advantage of the ExpressCard slot on laptops to offer wide support for the new format right out of the gate. ExpressCard was introduced in 2004 to replace the aging PC Card form factor, sometimes known as the PCMCIA form factor. The slot now appears on most new laptops, including popular video-editing platforms such as Apple’s MacBook Pro.
