Prograde Digital has announced two new card readers. The PG04 reads CFexpress Type B and XQD cards and can transfer data at speeds up to 40Gb/s (5GB/s) via Thunderbolt 3. The PG05.5 supports both CFexpress Type B and SDXC, UHS-II cards via USB 3.2 at speeds of up to 10Gb/s.
ProGrade Digital has announced a family of SDXC UHS-II V90 memory cards and has demonstrated CFexpress 1.0 technology in 1TB capacity offering 1,400MB/se data transfer speeds. The new SD cards are available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities. The CFexpress format is planned to replace both CFast and XQD formats.
Ex-Lexar executives have launched a new memory card company. Called ProGrade Digital, it will initially offer CFast 2.0 cards in 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB capacities and UHS-II SD-cards in 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB. The new cards are optimized for use in professional cameras, each be tested from component-level down to individual memory chips before leaving the factory and will have a three year warranty. ProGrade are also offering a USB 3.1 Gen. 2 card reader.