SanDisk and Fujifilm sign xD-Picture Card agreement

SanDisk will also sell xD-Picture Cards under the Fujifilm brand through SanDisk’s global retail distribution channels. First shipments are scheduled before year end.

The xD-Picture Card is a flash memory card format jointly developed and owned by Fujifilm, Olympus and Toshiba, and was introduced in the fourth quarter of 2002.

Developed specifically for digital camera applications, the cards offer large capacities for high megapixel photos as well as high performance needed to store the video clips that are becoming increasingly more popular in digital cameras. The xD-Picture Card has been designed for a maximum future capacity of 8 gigabytes.

SanDisk will begin selling the Fujifilm-branded xD Picture Card in capacities ranging from 64 megabytes (MB) to 512 MB. Under a previously announced agreement with Olympus, SanDisk has already begun to sell Olympus branded xD-Picture Cards to its retail customers. The Fujifilm and Olympus branded xD-Picture cards supplied by SanDisk can be used in digital cameras of both Fujifilm and Olympus.