PCMCIA Introduces ExpressCard Standard 2.0


PCMCIA has introduced the next-generation ExpressCard technology, Standard 2.0, which is claimed to support transfer rates ten times faster than the current Standard 1.2 protocol utilized in a wide range of notebooks. Devices that could potentially benefit from the increased speed include eSATA adapters for external hard drives, streaming media and video adapters, or high-performance storage modules such as SSDs.

The new protocol will support the latest PCI Express and USB 3.0 specifications, with transfer rates up to 5Gb/s. The technology is backwards-compatible with earlier products and does not diverge from the existing ExpressCard/34 and ExpressCard/54 module sizes. Standard 2.0 still retains plug-and-play compatibility, hot-swap abilities and support for Mac, Windows and Linux systems.

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