Renesas Technology's 1-Gigabyte Compactflash Card Stores Large Files Quickly with Fast, 10-Megabyte-Per-Second Write Speed.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2003 Offering a write speed five times faster than previous Renesas Technology products, the new Type-I card meets the CompactFlash(R) specification Version 2.0; a typical application benefit: faster shooting speeds for digital still cameras. Renesas Technology Renesas Technology Corporation (ルネサス テクノロジ| America, Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of the new joint-venture semiconductor company established by Hitachi, Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社 Corporation, today announced a 1-Gigabyte (1-GB) CompactFlash(R) card Type I, the HB28J1000CCC CCC A very speculative grade assigned to a debt obligation by a rating agency. Such a rating indicates default or considerable doubt that interest will be paid or principal repaid. Also called Caa. , which offers a very fast write speed of 10 Megabytes per second (unit) megabytes per second - (MBps, MB/s) Millions of bytes per second. A unit of data rate. 1 MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes per second (not 1,048,576). (10MB/s). The Type-I card (3.3 mm thick) can replace small hard disk drives (HDDs) in telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. equipment and industrial applications. The robust, large-capacity media is also an excellent match for storing the increasingly large files characteristic of PDAs, high-resolution digital still cameras, security systems and various multimedia products. Its high data-write speed allows quicker file storage for large-volume digital content such as video. With the 1-GB card, about 16 hours of voice (MP3) data or about 30 minutes of video (MPEG-2) data can be downloaded in approximately 1 minute 40 seconds. The combination of fast write speed and 1-GB storage makes the CompactFlash card particularly ideal for digital still-picture and video cameras. In still-picture cameras, it can store many files containing high-quality images, and its data writing speed allows photographers to take pictures in rapid succession to capture rapidly changing action. The 1-GB CompactFlash card contains eight Renesas Technology 1-Gbit AG-AND type flash memory chips that use multi-level cell MLC NAND flash is a flash memory technology using multiple levels per cell to allow more bits to be stored as opposed to SLC NAND flash technologies, which use a single level per cell. flash technology. The device's write speed is five times faster than, and its capacity twice the size of, the Renesas 512-MB CompactFlash card currently in volume production. The HB28J1000CCC card also is enhanced to support Version 2.0 of the CompactFlash specifications, which were announced by the CompactFlash Association (CompactFlash Association, Palo Alto, CA, www.compactflash.org) A membership organization founded in 1995 by SanDisk, Canon, Motorola, HP and others. Its goal is to promote CompactFlash as the premier open standard for storage for digital appliances and handheld devices. See CompactFlash. (CFA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986) Signed into law in 1986, the CFA was a significant step forward in criminalizing unauthorized access to computer systems and networks. The Act applies to "federal interest computers" that include any system used by the U.S. ) in June of this year. Renesas Technology produces a wide range of CompactFlash cards and other types of flash memory cards. Thus, in a related move to expand its flash product portfolio, the company today announced that it is currently developing a 4-GB PC-ATA card, Type II (5.0 mm thick). That product, to be designated the HB28J4000ACH (Automated Clearing House) A system of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank that provides electronic funds transfer (EFT) between banks. It is used for all kinds of fund transfer transactions, including direct deposit of paychecks and monthly debits for routine payments to , will contain 32 AG-AND type 1-Gbit flash memory chips, achieve a 10-MB/second write speed, and comply with PC Card Standard ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment and True-IDE specifications. Scheduled for introduction in spring 2004, the 4-GB PC-ATA card will offer faster data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a as a silicon disk. The device will provide a high-speed storage capability for telecommunications and industrial applications, be useful as a PC external storage medium, and make an excellent replacement for small HDDs.
Price and availability
Device Renesas Part # Write Speed Price / Availability
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1-GB CompactFlash HB28J1000CCC 10MB/s $250.00 in 10,000
card, Type I quantities/ November
2003
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Reader contact Readers can find additional product and contact information on the Renesas Technology Web site at www.renesas.com. About Renesas Technology Corp. Renesas Technology Corp. designs and manufactures highly integrated semiconductor system solutions for mobile, networking, automotive, industrial and digital home electronics markets. Established on April 1, 2003 as a joint venture between Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :6501)(NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HIT) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TSE:6503) and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Renesas Technology is one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world and the number one microcontroller A single chip that contains the processor (the CPU), non-volatile memory for the program (ROM or flash), volatile memory for input and output (RAM), a clock and an I/O control unit. supplier globally. Besides microcontrollers, Renesas Technology offers flash cards, flash memory devices, system-on-chip devices, Smart Card ICs, mixed-signal products, SRAMs and more. www.renesas.com Note to Editors: A specification summary is included in this release, and a photo of the 1GB CompactFlash card is available. Note: All companies and products referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
Specifications: Renesas Technology 1GB CompactFlash card
Item CompactFlash Card PC-ATA card
(under development)
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Part number HB28J1000CCC HB28J4000ACH
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Capacity 1 Gbyte 4 Gbytes
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Interfaces Compliant with Compliant with PC Card
CompactFlash(R) Version 2 Standard ATA specifications
specifications Compliant with True-IDE
Compliant with PIO transfer specifications
mode 4 (16.6-Mbyte/second
data transfer rate)
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Power supply 3.3 V +/-5%, 5 V +/-10%, single-power-supply operation
voltage
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Write speed Up to 10 Mbytes/second
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Operating 0(degree)C to 60(degree)C 0(degree)C to 60(degree)C
temperature
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External Compliant with CFA Compliant with PC Card
dimensions specifications, (Type I) Standard (Type II)
42.8 x 36.4 x 3.3mm specifications
54.0 x 85.6 x 5.0mm
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