SD Card Association

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The SD Card Association develops and publishes technical standards for SD Card technology, and promotes the use of the technology. SD Cards are compact data storage devices used to store digital files, such as picture files recorded by digital cameras. The association was founded on 28 January 2000 by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic), SanDisk Corporation and Toshiba Corporation.

Board members of the association are Canon Inc., Eastman Kodak Company, Hewlett Packard, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Infineon Technologies AG, Kingston Technology Company, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Motorola Inc., NEC Corporation, Nokia Corporation, Power Digital Card Co., Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., SanDisk Corporation, Sharp Corporation, Socket Mobile, Inc. and Toshiba Corporation.

[edit] References

• SanDisk article about their development of the microSD card

[edit] External links

• www.sdcard.org — the official website
• www.sdcard.com — SD World Website

[edit] See also

• Secure Digital card
• miniSD Card
• microSD Card