Pretec Shows 128MB CF Type II Card At Cebit 99

HANNOVER, Germany--March 18, 1999--Pretec Electronics Corporation, the creator of CompactI/O(tm) card, will be demonstrating the 128MB CompactFlash(tm) (CF+) card, the highest capacity CF+ card available in the world today, at Pretec booth (Booth No. E-2, Stand C16, Hall 9) here in CeBIT.

Previous world record of the highest capacity CF+ card (80MB), also developed and manufactured exclusively by Pretec, is available now in production quantity to OEM customers at each. Production of 128MB CF+ card is scheduled in April, and 320MB card will be sampling by 2nd half of 1999.

Pretec's high speed CF+ card is fully compliant with CompactFlash(tm) Type II specification, and is compatible with IBM's microdrive -- the smallest hard disk in the world (www.ibm.com/storage/microdrive). Based on the state-of-the-art 0.25um process technology, Multi-Level Cell (MLC) 256M/512M bit AND-gate architecture flash memory chips from Hitachi, and Pretec's proprietary controller, circuit design and packaging technology, Pretec breaks its own record again by offering the highest capacity card in the world.