Intel Debuts 8-MByte Density Flash Memory Miniature Card

Higher Flash Density Enables Megapixel Resolution Digital Cameras

FOLSOM, Calif., June 17, 1997 - Intel Corporation expanded its Miniature Card product offering with a new 8-Megabyte density available now in OEM quantities of 10K units at $69, the company announced today. One application for the new Intel 8-Mbyte Series 100 Flash Memory Miniature Card is the next generation digital cameras that require megapixel resolution imaging capabilities to produce photo-realistic prints. Rugged and removable, Miniature Cards are suited for low-cost data storage in a range of portable electronic systems, such as digital voice recorders and companion PCs.

Intel Series 100 Flash Memory Miniature Cards, also available at 2- and 4-Mbytes, are a PC-compatible digital media that stores image, text and voice data in consumer electronic devices. The Miniature Card can exchange data with the PC, fostering integration of images and voice-to-text PC applications.

The Series 100 Flash Memory Miniature Cards are based on x16 linear array of Intel 28F008SC and 28F016SC flash memory chips and support 3.3-Volt and 5-volt read/write operations. The cards feature high-performance 100-nanosecond reads at 5-volts. The card design is based on the Miniature Card industry specification for small, removable memory media.

A host of products based on the Miniature Card specification provide multiple options for data transfer of the new digital media to desktop and notebook PCs, such as reader/writers in Universal Serial Bus (USB) and parallel port versions, a USB-enabled keyboard that features a built-in Miniature Card socket for fast data transfer from the card to the PC, and passive adapters to facilitate Miniature Card data transfer via PCMCIA slots. Miniature Card-to-PC connectivity solutions work for any flash memory-based Miniature Card product including AMD's, Fujitsu's and Sharp Corporation's, as well as Intel's.

FTL software, the data format that allows the PC operating system to read and write to a Miniature Card, is now included in Windows* 95* OSR-2 release to OEMs. FTL ensures data compatibility among Miniature Cards and host devices, such as digital cameras, digital audio recorders and handheld PCs, and is recognized by PCMCIA as the industry standard for flash data formats.

Intel is the largest supplier of flash memory products worldwide, according to market research firms Dataquest, Instat and Semico.

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