CompactFlash Association Makes New CFast(TM) Specification Available

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Sep. 3, 2008 - The CompactFlash Association (CFA) announces that the new CFast specification revision 1.0 is available to be downloaded from the CFA website.

The first CFast cards were demonstrated at the Flash Memory Summit in August.

Mr. Shigeto Kanda of Canon and the CFA chairman of the board said, "The development of a CompactFlash card with a SATA interface will maintain the dominance of CompactFlash in the non-consumer (embedded systems, single board computers, data recorder, etc.) markets as well as promote its use in other applications such as professional digital SLR cameras, professional video cameras and mini-notebooks. Having the SATA interface will be a significant step for CompactFlash."

The current CompactFlash PATA (parallel ATA) interface provides up to a 133MB/second interface data rate. The SATA interface will provide interface data rates up to 3Gb/sec as well as compatibility with the SATA disk drive interfaces that are increasingly being used.

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