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PCMCIA Announces NEWCARD Format

Posted by michael on from the that's-the-best-name-they-could-come-up-with dept.

schnoz writes "Found this over at DPReview: "The PCMCIA technology association has today announced the 'NEWCARD' format. This new format makes use of PC Card, PCI Express and USB 2.0 technologies. The NEWCARD format is also aimed at both Mobile and Desktop PCs". Check out the rest of the article here."

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  1. Why USB 2.0? by GreatOgre · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why not use something worth a damn like Firewire or even Firewire 2.0 (which I've heard about being developed though I haven't seen much on it)? From what I've seen, Firewire devices still have a faster transmission rate than the USB 2.0 devices even though the burst speed is lower. Plus, Firewire isn't some much of the hack that USB is (nd yes I run SCSI too!).

    Or is Intel and the gang still pissed that IEEE won't give USB the time of day?

  2. Whata useless article... by Goronmon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't think there was any actual information in that article. All I read was a bunch of hype about how good these Newcard format was going to be and what it was going to replace.

    It almost seems as though they were just trying to sell some stock by making this new format to be the greatest thing to hit the laptop since the keyboard.