Pretec Demos 32GB SDXC

Pretec unveiled the new SDXC 32GB, the world’s highest capacity and fastest SD card at CeBIT and PMA.

SDXC (eXtended Capacity) is a next-generation SD card, with capacities up to 2 TB (2048GB), and read/write speed up to 50MB/s initially and up to 104MB/s in the future, with a possible 300MB/s as a long term roadmap. As of today, no SDXC compliant host systems are available in the market yet.

By using exFAT file system, Pretec’s 32GB SDXC card is not compatible with SDHC, which is using FAT32 file system. The maximum access speed of traditional SD card (SD 1.1 spec.) is 12.5MB/s and maximum capacity is 4GB, in which Pretec 4GB SD is the 1st such high capacity card in the world in July 2005. World’s 1st 8GB SDHC card was introduced by Pretec in Aug. 2006, and subsequently joint displayed with Sanyo’s DV Xacti HD1a in Photokina 2006. Maximum speed increased to 25MB/s for SDHC (SD 2.0 spec.), which is the access speed of Pretec 166X SDHC card. Pretec 32GB SDXC card, sampling now to design-in customers, can reach the speed of up to 50MB/s, depending on the host system design which needs to be compliant with SDXC specification, will be enhanced the capacity to 64GB SDXC by the 2nd half of this year.