PCMCIA Announcements at CeBIT '99
HANNOVER, Germany, CeBIT '99 -- PCMCIA, an international standards body and trade association for the modular peripheral industry, announced that it has assumed administration of the SmartMedia Card and Miniature Card Standards from their respective forums. Under the agreements, PCMCIA will centrally coordinate and distribute updates and enhancements to the standards as they evolve.
PCMCIA also made several other announcements:
- CardX Standard. Development of the new CardX standard that adapts the popular USB and 1394 serial interfaces into specifications compatible with the PC Card form factor continues. CardX will offer developers of modular peripheral devices, such as laptops, PDAs and video cameras, the ability to use the 1394 and USB interfaces in the PC Card form factor. The new CardX standard will support applications ranging from real-time video capture, dish drives, and notebook computer/PDA interfaces to Gigabit Ethernet and other high-speed LAN/WAN networks to serial-port applications such as modems.
- PC Card Release 7.0. PCMCIA also announced that Release 7.0 of the PC Card standard will be available at the end of 1Q99. This release incorporates all proposals approved since April 1998.
- International Conference. PCMCIA's Annual International Meeting will be held June 8-9 at the Westbury Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. Members from more than 50 companies will participate in workgroups and discuss updates to various modular peripheral standards at the meeting. See the PCMCIA website for details.
