A Celebration of Innovation: Looking Back on 10 Years of the SD Association
The SD association has announced that they will be celebrating their 10 year anniversary at CES 2010. They launched their first 8MB SD cards during CES 2000, and in the past 10 years have continued to lead the market with their Secure Digital (SD), SDHC (High Capacity), and now SDXC (Extended Capacity) flash memory technologies. SD type flash memory cards are now used by the majority of consumer digicams, along with many entry-level dSLRs and other electronic devices. Some compact cameras, along with most smart phones, are now using microSD and microSDHC type cards for storage.
Below you will find a brief time line of the SD Association's accomplishments:
- 2000 - SD Association launches 8 MB SD memory card, with expectations of seeing a 64 MB SD memory card by end of year
- 2001 - 128 MB to 256 MB SD memory card
- 2002 - 512 MB SD memory card
- 2003 - miniSD form factor introduced for mobile phones
- 2004 - 1 GB SD memory card introduced
- 2005 - microSD form factor introduced for smaller mobile phones
- 2006 - SDHC introduced with 4 GB to 32 GB storage
- 2008 - Embedded SD introduced
- 2009 - SDXC introduced for 64 GB to 2 TB storage, 32 GB SDHC memory cards debut
- 2010 - SD Association 10th anniversary; SDXC products to hit retailers
