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href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarxeta_de_memoria" title="Tarxeta de memoria – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Tarxeta de memoria" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1" title="মেমোরি কার্ড – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="মেমোরি কার্ড" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0" title="Флашкарта – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Флашкарта" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeta_de_mem%C3%B2ria" title="Targeta de memòria – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Targeta de memòria" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam%C4%9B%C5%A5ov%C3%A1_karta" title="Paměťová karta – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Paměťová karta" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukommelseskort" title="Hukommelseskort – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Hukommelseskort" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speicherkarte" title="Speicherkarte – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Speicherkarte" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4lukaart" title="Mälukaart – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Mälukaart" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%AC%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B1_%CE%BC%CE%BD%CE%AE%CE%BC%CE%B7%CF%82" title="Κάρτα μνήμης – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Κάρτα μνήμης" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarjeta_de_memoria" title="Tarjeta de memoria – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Tarjeta de memoria" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoria-txartel" title="Memoria-txartel – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Memoria-txartel" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B8%D9%87" title="کارت حافظه – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کارت حافظه" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_m%C3%A9moire" title="Carte mémoire – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Carte mémoire" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%AE%E0%AB%87%E0%AA%AE%E0%AA%B0%E0%AB%80_%E0%AA%95%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%B0%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%A1" title="મેમરી કાર્ડ – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="મેમરી કાર્ડ" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ગુજરાતી</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A9%94%EB%AA%A8%EB%A6%AC_%EC%B9%B4%EB%93%9C" title="메모리 카드 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="메모리 카드" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1" title="मैमोरी कार्ड – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="मैमोरी कार्ड" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorijska_kartica" title="Memorijska kartica – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Memorijska kartica" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartu_memori" title="Kartu memori – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Kartu memori" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheda_di_memoria" title="Scheda di memoria – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Scheda di memoria" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9B%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A1_%D7%96%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9F" title="כרטיס זיכרון – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="כרטיס זיכרון" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%AE%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%91%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%97%E1%83%98" title="მეხსიერების ბარათი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მეხსიერების ბარათი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%96" title="Жад картриджі – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Жад картриджі" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charta_memorialis" title="Charta memorialis – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Charta memorialis" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmi%C5%86as_karte" title="Atmiņas karte – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Atmiņas karte" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atminties_kortel%C4%97" title="Atminties kortelė – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Atminties kortelė" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mem%C3%B3riak%C3%A1rtya" title="Memóriakártya – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Memóriakártya" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Мемориска картичка – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Мемориска картичка" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%8D" title="മെമ്മറി കാർഡ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="മെമ്മറി കാർഡ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kad_ingatan" title="Kad ingatan – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Kad ingatan" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%99%E1%80%99%E1%80%BA%E1%80%99%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AE_%E1%80%80%E1%80%90%E1%80%BA%E1%80%92%E1%80%BA" title="မမ်မိုရီ ကတ်ဒ် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="မမ်မိုရီ ကတ်ဒ်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geheugenkaart" title="Geheugenkaart – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Geheugenkaart" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1" title="मेमोरी कार्ड – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="मेमोरी कार्ड" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%83%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89" title="メモリーカード – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="メモリーカード" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnekort" title="Minnekort – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Minnekort" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagringskort" title="Lagringskort – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Lagringskort" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AE%E0%A9%88%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%A1" title="ਮੈਮਰੀ ਕਾਰਡ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਮੈਮਰੀ ਕਾਰਡ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karta_pami%C4%99ci" title="Karta pamięci – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Karta pamięci" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cart%C3%A3o_de_mem%C3%B3ria" title="Cartão de memória – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Cartão de memória" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_de_memorie" title="Card de memorie – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Card de memorie" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8" title="Карта памяти – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Карта памяти" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sat mw-list-item"><a href="https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%A2%E1%B1%AE%E1%B1%A2%E1%B1%B3%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%A4_%E1%B1%A0%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%B0" title="ᱢᱮᱢᱳᱨᱤ ᱠᱟᱨᱰ – Santali" 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data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>Memory card in a digital SLR camera</figcaption></figure> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Electronic data storage device</div> <p> A <b>memory card</b> is an electronic data storage device used for storing digital information, typically using <a href="/wiki/Flash_memory" title="Flash memory">flash memory</a>. These are commonly used in digital <a href="/wiki/Mobile_computing" title="Mobile computing">portable electronic devices</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Digital_camera" title="Digital camera">digital cameras</a> as well as in many early games consoles such as the <a href="/wiki/Nintendo_Wii" class="mw-redirect" title="Nintendo Wii">Nintendo Wii</a>. They allow adding memory to such devices using a card in a socket instead of protruding <a href="/wiki/USB_flash_drive" title="USB flash drive">USB flash drives</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Common types of flash memory card include <a href="/wiki/SD_card" title="SD card">SD cards</a> (including microSD), <a href="/wiki/Memory_Stick" title="Memory Stick">Sony's Memory Stick</a> and <a href="/wiki/CompactFlash" title="CompactFlash">CompactFlash</a>. As of 2024<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Memory_card&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, SD cards are the most common type of memory cards. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Memory_card&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The basis for memory card technology is <a href="/wiki/Flash_memory" title="Flash memory">flash memory</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was invented by <a href="/wiki/Fujio_Masuoka" title="Fujio Masuoka">Fujio Masuoka</a> at <a href="/wiki/Toshiba" title="Toshiba">Toshiba</a> in 1980<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and commercialized by Toshiba in 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The development of memory cards was driven in the 1980s by the need for an alternative to floppy disk drives that had lower power consumption, had less weight and occupied less volume in laptops. Some were also marketed as a lower cost alternative to <a href="/wiki/ROM_cartridge" title="ROM cartridge">ROM cartridges</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several competing and incompatible memory card formats were developed by several vendors,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> such as for example the <a href="/wiki/Bee_Card_(game_cartridge)" title="Bee Card (game cartridge)">Bee Card</a>, Astron SoftCards,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sega Cards, <a href="/wiki/NEC_UltraLite" title="NEC UltraLite">NEC UltraLite</a> memory cards,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Mitsubishi Melcard which came in variants using 60 and 50 connector pins. The <a href="/wiki/Sega_Card" title="Sega Card">Sega Card</a> was developed as a cheaper alternative to game cartridges.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some memory cards were used for memory expansion in laptops.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto2_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>JEIDA, the <a href="/wiki/Japan_Electronic_Industry_Development_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Japan Electronic Industry Development Association">Japan Electronic Industry Development Association</a>, began to work on a standard for memory cards in 1985, and developed the <a href="/wiki/JEIDA_memory_card" title="JEIDA memory card">JEIDA memory card</a> in 1986.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Personal_Computer_Memory_Card_International_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Personal Computer Memory Card International Association">Personal Computer Memory Card International Association</a> (PCMCIA) was an industry association created in 1989 to promote a standard for memory cards in PCs, and worked closely with JEIDA, adopting their 68 pin connector design. The specification for PCMCIA type I cards, later renamed <a href="/wiki/PC_Card" title="PC Card">PC Cards</a>, was first released in 1990, and unified the JEIDA memory card standard with the PC Card standard.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto3_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This format later included support for other devices besides memory cards.<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> PC Card was among the first commercial memory card formats to come out, but is mainly used in industrial applications and to connect I/O devices such as <a href="/wiki/Modem" title="Modem">modems</a>. </p><p>Some early memory cards used <a href="/wiki/Static_random-access_memory" title="Static random-access memory">SRAM</a> as a storage medium, which required a lithium battery to keep the contents in the SRAM. These cards were faster than their flash counterparts. Some of the first PCMCIA cards had capacities of 1 to 5 MB and cost US$100 per MB.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other early cards such as the Bee Card contained non-modifiable <a href="/wiki/ROM" class="mw-redirect" title="ROM">ROM</a>, <a href="/wiki/Write_once_read_many" title="Write once read many">Write once read many</a> <a href="/wiki/EPROM" title="EPROM">EPROM</a> or rewriteable <a href="/wiki/EEPROM" title="EEPROM">EEPROM</a> memory.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1992, <a href="/wiki/SanDisk" title="SanDisk">SanDisk</a> introduced FlashDisk, a PCMCIA card and one of the first memory cards that did not require battery power to retain its contents, as it used flash memory.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto1_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1994, memory card formats smaller than the PC Card arrived. The first one was <a href="/wiki/CompactFlash" title="CompactFlash">CompactFlash</a> and later <a href="/wiki/SmartMedia" title="SmartMedia">SmartMedia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Miniature_Card" title="Miniature Card">Miniature Card</a>. The desire for smaller cards for cell-phones, <a href="/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant" title="Personal digital assistant">PDAs</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Compact_digital_camera" class="mw-redirect" title="Compact digital camera">compact digital cameras</a> drove a trend that left the previous generation of "compact" cards looking big. In 2000 the SD card was announced. SD was envisioned as a single memory card format for several kinds of electronic devices, that could also function as an expansion slot for adding new capabilities for a device.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2001, SmartMedia alone captured 50% of the digital camera market and CF had captured the professional digital camera market. </p><p>However, by 2005, SD and similar MMC cards had nearly taken over SmartMedia's spot, though not to the same level and with stiff competition coming from Memory Stick variants, as well as CompactFlash. In industrial and embedded fields, even the venerable PC card (PCMCIA) memory cards still manage to maintain a <a href="/wiki/Niche_market" title="Niche market">niche</a>, while in mobile phones and PDAs, the memory card has become smaller.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Initially memory cards were expensive, costing US$3 per megabyte of capacity in 2001;<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> this led to the development of miniaturized rotating disk memory devices such as the <a href="/wiki/Microdrive" title="Microdrive">Microdrive</a>, <a href="/wiki/PocketZip" title="PocketZip">PocketZip</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dataplay" class="mw-redirect" title="Dataplay">Dataplay</a>. The Microdrive had higher capacities than memory cards at the time. All three concepts became obsolete once flash memory prices became lower and their capacities became higher by 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>New products of Sony (previously only using Memory Stick) and Olympus (previously only using XD-Card) have been offered with an additional SD-Card slot beginning in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Effectively the <a href="/wiki/Format_war" title="Format war">format war</a> has turned in SD-Card's favor.<sup id="cite_ref-formatkrieg1_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-formatkrieg1-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/SD_card#Markets" title="SD card">SD card § Markets</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Data_table_of_selected_memory_card_formats">Data table of selected memory card formats</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Memory_card&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Data table of selected memory card formats"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="[icon]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b> with: info on which of those are dead. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Memory_card&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2021</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name</th> <th>Abbreviation</th> <th>Form factor (mm)</th> <th><a href="/wiki/Digital_rights_management" title="Digital rights management">DRM</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/PC_Card" title="PC Card">PC Card</a></td> <td style="text-align:center;">PCMCIA</td> <td>85.6 × 54 × 3.3</td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/CompactFlash" title="CompactFlash">CompactFlash</a> I</td> <td style="text-align:center;">CF-I</td> <td>43 × 36 × 3.3</td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/CompactFlash" title="CompactFlash">CompactFlash</a> II</td> <td style="text-align:center;">CF-II</td> <td>43 × 36 × 5.5</td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/CFexpress" title="CFexpress">CFexpress</a> Type A</td> <td style="text-align:center;">CFA</td> <td>20 × 28 × 2.8</td> <td style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Unknown </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/CFexpress" title="CFexpress">CFexpress</a> Type B</td> <td style="text-align:center;">CFX</td> <td>38.5 × 29.8 × 3.8</td> <td style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Unknown </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/CFexpress" title="CFexpress">CFexpress</a> Type C</td> <td style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #EEE); color: var(--color-base, black); vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; text-align: center;" class="table-Unknown">?</td> <td>54 × 74 × 4.8</td> <td style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Unknown </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SmartMedia" title="SmartMedia">SmartMedia</a></td> <td style="text-align:center;">SM/ SMC</td> <td>45 × 37 × 0.76 </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes"><a href="/wiki/SmartMedia#Copy_protection" title="SmartMedia">ID</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Memory_Stick" title="Memory Stick">Memory Stick</a></td> <td style="text-align:center;">MS</td> <td>50.0 × 21.5 × 2.8</td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes"><a href="/wiki/MagicGate" title="MagicGate">MagicGate</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Memory_Stick" title="Memory Stick">Memory Stick</a> Duo</td> <td style="text-align:center;">MSD</td> <td>31.0 × 20.0 × 1.6</td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes"><a href="/wiki/MagicGate" title="MagicGate">MagicGate</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Memory_Stick" title="Memory Stick">Memory Stick</a> Pro Duo</td> <td style="text-align:center;">MSPD</td> <td>31.0 × 20.0 × 1.6</td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes"><a href="/wiki/MagicGate" title="MagicGate">MagicGate</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Memory_Stick" title="Memory Stick">Memory Stick</a> Pro-HG Duo</td> <td style="text-align:center;">MSPDX</td> <td>31.0 × 20.0 × 1.6</td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes"><a href="/wiki/MagicGate" title="MagicGate">MagicGate</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Memory_Stick" title="Memory Stick">Memory Stick</a> Micro M2</td> <td style="text-align:center;">M2</td> <td>15.0 × 12.5 × 1.2</td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes"><a href="/wiki/MagicGate" title="MagicGate">MagicGate</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Miniature_Card" title="Miniature Card">Miniature Card</a></td> <td style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #EEE); color: var(--color-base, black); vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; text-align: center;" class="table-Unknown">?</td> <td>37 × 45 × 3.5</td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Multimedia_Card" class="mw-redirect" title="Multimedia Card">Multimedia Card</a></td> <td style="text-align:center;">MMC</td> <td>32 × 24 × 1.5</td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Multimedia_Card" class="mw-redirect" title="Multimedia Card">Reduced Size Multimedia Card</a></td> <td style="text-align:center;">RS-MMC</td> <td>16 × 24 × 1.5</td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Multimedia_Card" class="mw-redirect" title="Multimedia Card">MMCmicro Card</a></td> <td style="text-align:center;">MMCmicro</td> <td>12 × 14 × 1.1</td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nintendo_Switch#Distribution" title="Nintendo Switch">Nintendo Switch</a></td> <td style="text-align:center;">NS</td> <td>31 × 21 × 3</td> <td style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #EEE); color: var(--color-base, black); vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; text-align: center;" class="table-Unknown">? </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/P2_(storage_media)" title="P2 (storage media)">P2 card</a></td> <td style="text-align:center;">P2</td> <td>85.6 × 54 × 3.3</td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/PlayStation_Vita#Storage_media" title="PlayStation Vita">PS Vita</a></td> <td style="text-align:center;">PSV</td> <td>30 x 22 x 2</td> <td style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #EEE); color: var(--color-base, black); vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; text-align: center;" class="table-Unknown">? </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SD_card" title="SD card">SD card</a></td> <td style="text-align:center;">SD</td> <td>32 × 24 × 2.1</td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes"><a href="/wiki/CPRM" class="mw-redirect" title="CPRM">CPRM</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SxS" title="SxS">SxS</a></td> <td style="text-align:center;">SxS</td> <td>75 × 34 × 5</td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Universal_Flash_Storage" title="Universal Flash Storage">Universal Flash Storage</a></td> <td style="text-align:center;">UFS</td> <td style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #EEE); color: var(--color-base, black); vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; text-align: center;" class="table-Unknown">?</td> <td style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Unknown </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SD_card#Micro-cards" title="SD card">microSD card</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/MOS:BROKENSECTIONLINKS" class="mw-redirect" title="MOS:BROKENSECTIONLINKS"><span title="The anchor (Micro-cards) has been deleted. (2024-06-13)">broken anchor</span></a></i>]</sup></td> <td style="text-align:center;">microSD</td> <td>15 × 11 × 0.7</td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes"><a href="/wiki/CPRM" class="mw-redirect" title="CPRM">CPRM</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/XD-Picture_Card" title="XD-Picture Card">xD-Picture Card</a></td> <td style="text-align:center;">xD</td> <td>20 × 25 × 1.7</td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td>Intelligent Stick</td> <td style="text-align:center;">iStick</td> <td>24 × 18 × 2.8</td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td>Serial Flash Module</td> <td style="text-align:center;">SFM</td> <td>45 × 15</td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td>μ card</td> <td style="text-align:center;">μcard</td> <td>32 × 24 × 1</td> <td style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Unknown </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/NT_Card" title="NT Card">NT Card</a></td> <td style="text-align:center;">NT NT+</td> <td>44 × 24 × 2.5</td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/XQD_card" title="XQD card">XQD card</a></td> <td style="text-align:center;">XQD</td> <td>38.5 × 29.8 × 3.8</td> <td style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Unknown </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nano_Memory" title="Nano Memory">Nano Memory</a> card</td> <td style="text-align:center;">NM Card</td> <td>12.3 × 8.8 × 0.7</td> <td style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Unknown </td></tr></tbody></table> <ul 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class="mw-redirect" title="Secure Digital card">Secure Digital card</a> (SD)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 290.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 288.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MiniSD_memory_card_including_adapter.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="MiniSD Card with an SD card adapter"><img alt="MiniSD Card with an SD card adapter" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/MiniSD_memory_card_including_adapter.jpg/433px-MiniSD_memory_card_including_adapter.jpg" decoding="async" width="289" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/MiniSD_memory_card_including_adapter.jpg/650px-MiniSD_memory_card_including_adapter.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/MiniSD_memory_card_including_adapter.jpg/866px-MiniSD_memory_card_including_adapter.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2168" data-file-height="1502" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/MiniSD_Card" class="mw-redirect" title="MiniSD Card">MiniSD Card</a> with an SD card adapter</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 176.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 174.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Memory_Stick_Front_and_Back.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Memory Stick"><img alt="Memory Stick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Memory_Stick_Front_and_Back.jpg" decoding="async" width="175" height="200" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="262" data-file-height="300" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Memory_Stick" title="Memory Stick">Memory Stick</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 234.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 232.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Compactflash-512mb.png" class="mw-file-description" title="CompactFlash (CF-I)"><img alt="CompactFlash (CF-I)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Compactflash-512mb.png" decoding="async" width="233" height="200" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="251" data-file-height="216" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/CompactFlash" title="CompactFlash">CompactFlash</a> (CF-I)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 176.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 174.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kingston_Multi_Media_Card_32MB_front_20040702.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="MultiMediaCard (MMC)"><img alt="MultiMediaCard (MMC)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Kingston_Multi_Media_Card_32MB_front_20040702.jpg" decoding="async" width="175" height="200" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="171" data-file-height="196" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/MultiMediaCard" title="MultiMediaCard">MultiMediaCard</a> (MMC)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 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Card"><img alt="xD-Picture Card" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/XD_card_16M_Fujifilm_front.png/390px-XD_card_16M_Fujifilm_front.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/XD_card_16M_Fujifilm_front.png/585px-XD_card_16M_Fujifilm_front.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/XD_card_16M_Fujifilm_front.png 2x" data-file-width="762" data-file-height="586" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/XD-Picture_Card" title="XD-Picture Card">xD-Picture Card</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 590.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 588.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Huawei_NM_Card.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="NM card (a proprietary memory card format created by Huawei) Electronic contacts compared to nano-sim card to the same scale"><img alt="NM card (a proprietary memory card format created by Huawei) Electronic contacts compared to nano-sim card to the same scale" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Huawei_NM_Card.jpg" decoding="async" width="589" height="200" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="255" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Nano_Memory" title="Nano Memory">NM card</a> (a proprietary memory card format created by Huawei) Electronic contacts compared to nano-sim card to the same scale</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview_of_all_memory_card_types">Overview of all memory card types</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Memory_card&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Overview of all memory card types"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_memory_cards" title="Comparison of memory cards">Comparison of memory cards</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Memory_card" title="Special:EditPage/Memory card">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">May 2015</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li>PCMCIA ATA Type I Card (PC Card ATA Type I) <ul><li>PCMCIA Type II, Type III cards</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CompactFlash" title="CompactFlash">CompactFlash</a> Card (Type I), CompactFlash High-Speed</li> <li>CompactFlash Type II, CF+(CF2.0), CF3.0 <ul><li>Microdrive</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CFexpress" title="CFexpress">CFexpress</a></li> <li>MiniCard (<a href="/wiki/Miniature_Card" title="Miniature Card">Miniature Card</a>) (max 64 MB / 64 <a href="/wiki/MiB" class="mw-redirect" title="MiB">MiB</a>)</li> <li>SmartMedia Card (SSFDC) (max 128 MB) (3.3 V,5 V)</li> <li>xD-Picture Card, xD-Picture Card Type M</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memory_Stick" title="Memory Stick">Memory Stick</a>, MagicGate Memory Stick (max 128 MB); Memory Stick Select, MagicGate Memory Stick Select ("Select" means: 2x128 MB with A/B switch)</li> <li>SecureMMC</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secure_Digital" class="mw-redirect" title="Secure Digital">Secure Digital</a> (SD Card), Secure Digital High-Speed, Secure Digital Plus/Xtra/etc (SD with USB connector) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MiniSD_card" class="mw-redirect" title="MiniSD card">miniSD card</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MicroSD" class="mw-redirect" title="MicroSD">microSD</a> card (aka Transflash, T-Flash, TF)</li> <li>SDHC</li> <li>WiFi SD Cards (SD Card With WiFi Card Built in) Powered by Device. (Eye-Fi, WiFi SD, Flash Air)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nano_Memory" title="Nano Memory">Nano Memory</a> (NM) card</li> <li>MU-Flash (Mu-Card) (Mu-Card Alliance of OMIA)</li> <li>C-Flash</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subscriber_Identity_Module" class="mw-redirect" title="Subscriber Identity Module">SIM</a> card (Subscriber Identity Module)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smart_card" title="Smart card">Smart card</a> (<a href="/wiki/ISO/IEC_7810" title="ISO/IEC 7810">ISO/IEC 7810</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISO/IEC_7816" title="ISO/IEC 7816">ISO/IEC 7816</a> card standards, etc.)</li> <li>UFC (<a href="/wiki/USB_FlashCard" class="mw-redirect" title="USB FlashCard">USB FlashCard</a>) (uses <a href="/wiki/USB" title="USB">USB</a>)</li> <li>FISH Universal Transportable Memory Card Standard (uses USB)</li> <li>Intelligent Stick (iStick, a USB-based flash memory card with MMS)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SxS" title="SxS">SxS</a> (S-by-S) memory card, a new memory card specification developed by <a href="/wiki/Sandisk" class="mw-redirect" title="Sandisk">Sandisk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sony" title="Sony">Sony</a>. SxS complies to the <a href="/wiki/ExpressCard" title="ExpressCard">ExpressCard</a> industry standard.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Nexflash Winbond Serial Flash Module (SFM) cards, size range 1 <a href="/wiki/Mebibyte" class="mw-redirect" title="Mebibyte">MB</a>, 2 MB and 4 MB.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Comparison">Comparison</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Memory_card&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Comparison"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Standard </th> <th colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/SD_card" title="SD card">SD</a> </th> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Universal_Flash_Storage" title="Universal Flash Storage">UFS Card</a> </th> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/CFast" class="mw-redirect" title="CFast">CFast</a> </th> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/XQD" class="mw-redirect" title="XQD">XQD</a> </th> <th colspan="3"><a href="/wiki/CFexpress" title="CFexpress">CFexpress</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td>Version </td> <td>3.0 </td> <td>4.0 </td> <td>6.0 </td> <td>7.0<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>8.0 </td> <td>1.0 </td> <td>2.0 </td> <td>1.0 </td> <td>2.0 </td> <td>1.0 </td> <td>2.0 </td> <td>1.0 </td> <td>2.0 </td> <td>4.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Launched </td> <td>2010 Q2 </td> <td>2011 Q1 </td> <td>2017 Q1 </td> <td>2018 Q2 </td> <td>2020 Q1 </td> <td>2016 Q2 </td> <td>? </td> <td>2008 Q3 </td> <td>2012 Q3 </td> <td>2011 Q4 </td> <td>2014 Q1 </td> <td>2017 Q2 </td> <td>2019 Q1 </td> <td>2023 Q3 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Bus </td> <td>UHS-I </td> <td>UHS-II </td> <td>UHS-III </td> <td>PCIe 3.0 x1 </td> <td>PCIe 4.0 x2 </td> <td>UFS 2.0 </td> <td>UFS 3.0 </td> <td>SATA-300 </td> <td>SATA-600 </td> <td>PCIe 2.0 x1 </td> <td>PCIe 2.0 x2 </td> <td>PCIe 3.0 x2 </td> <td>PCIe 3.0 x1/x2/x4 </td> <td>PCIe 4.0 x1/x2/x4 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Speed <p>(full-duplex) </p> </td> <td>104 MB/s </td> <td>156 MB/s </td> <td>624 MB/s </td> <td>985 MB/s </td> <td>3938 MB/s </td> <td>600 MB/s </td> <td>1200 MB/s </td> <td>300 MB/s </td> <td>600 MB/s </td> <td>500 MB/s </td> <td>1000 MB/s </td> <td>1970 MB/s </td> <td>up to 4 GB/s </td> <td>up to 8 GB/s </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Video_game_consoles">Video game consoles</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Memory_card&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Video game consoles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Memory_card" title="Special:EditPage/Memory card">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2011</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Many older <a href="/wiki/Video_game_console" title="Video game console">video game consoles</a> used memory cards to hold <a href="/wiki/Saved_game" title="Saved game">saved game</a> data. <a href="/wiki/Game_cartridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Game cartridge">Cartridge</a>-based systems primarily used battery-backed <a href="/wiki/Volatile_memory" title="Volatile memory">volatile</a> <a href="/wiki/RAM" class="mw-redirect" title="RAM">RAM</a> within each individual cartridge to hold saves for that game. Cartridges without this RAM may have used a <a href="/wiki/Password_(video_gaming)" class="mw-redirect" title="Password (video gaming)">password system</a>, or would not save progress at all. The <a href="/wiki/Neo_Geo_AES" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo Geo AES">Neo Geo AES</a>, released in 1990 by <a href="/wiki/SNK" title="SNK">SNK</a>, was the first video game console able to use a memory card. AES memory cards were also compatible with <a href="/wiki/Neo_Geo_MVS" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo Geo MVS">Neo Geo MVS</a> <a href="/wiki/Arcade_cabinet" title="Arcade cabinet">arcade cabinets</a>, allowing players to migrate saves between home and <a href="/wiki/Arcade_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Arcade system">arcade systems</a> and vice versa.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Memory cards became commonplace when home consoles moved to read-only <a href="/wiki/Optical_disc" title="Optical disc">optical discs</a> for storing the game program, beginning with systems such as the <a href="/wiki/TurboGrafx-CD" class="mw-redirect" title="TurboGrafx-CD">TurboGrafx-CD</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sega-CD" class="mw-redirect" title="Sega-CD">Sega-CD</a>. </p><p>Until the <a href="/wiki/Sixth_generation_of_video_game_consoles" title="Sixth generation of video game consoles">sixth generation of video game consoles</a>, memory cards were based on <a href="/wiki/Proprietary_format" class="mw-redirect" title="Proprietary format">proprietary formats</a>; Later systems used established industry formats for memory cards, such as <a href="/wiki/FAT32" class="mw-redirect" title="FAT32">FAT32</a>. </p><p>Home consoles commonly use <a href="/wiki/Hard_disk_drive" title="Hard disk drive">hard disk drive</a> storage for saved games and allow the use of <a href="/wiki/USB_flash_drive" title="USB flash drive">USB flash drives</a> or other card formats via a <a href="/wiki/Memory_card_reader" title="Memory card reader">memory card reader</a> to transport game saves and other game information. Though some consoles have implemented <a href="/wiki/Cloud_storage" title="Cloud storage">cloud storage</a> saving, most portable gaming systems still rely on custom memory cartridges to store program data, due to their low power consumption, smaller physical size and reduced mechanical complexity. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Neo-Geo-Memory-Card.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Neo Geo 2 KiB memory card"><img alt="Neo Geo 2 KiB memory card" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Neo-Geo-Memory-Card.jpg/120px-Neo-Geo-Memory-Card.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Neo-Geo-Memory-Card.jpg/180px-Neo-Geo-Memory-Card.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Neo-Geo-Memory-Card.jpg/240px-Neo-Geo-Memory-Card.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2430" data-file-height="1590" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <a href="/wiki/Neo_Geo" title="Neo Geo">Neo Geo</a> 2 KiB memory card</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PSX-Memory-Card.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="PlayStation 128 KiB memory card"><img alt="PlayStation 128 KiB memory card" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/PSX-Memory-Card.jpg/120px-PSX-Memory-Card.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="91" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/PSX-Memory-Card.jpg/180px-PSX-Memory-Card.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/PSX-Memory-Card.jpg/240px-PSX-Memory-Card.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2220" data-file-height="1680" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <a href="/wiki/PlayStation_(console)" title="PlayStation (console)">PlayStation</a> 128 KiB memory card</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sega-Dreamcast-VMU.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Dreamcast (VMU) 128 KiB memory card"><img alt="Dreamcast (VMU) 128 KiB memory card" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Sega-Dreamcast-VMU.jpg/89px-Sega-Dreamcast-VMU.jpg" decoding="async" width="89" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Sega-Dreamcast-VMU.jpg/134px-Sega-Dreamcast-VMU.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Sega-Dreamcast-VMU.jpg/178px-Sega-Dreamcast-VMU.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2600" data-file-height="3500" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"> <a href="/wiki/Dreamcast" title="Dreamcast">Dreamcast</a> (<a href="/wiki/VMU" title="VMU">VMU</a>) 128 KiB memory card</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; 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