The Integrated Circuit Department of Fujitsu Microelectronics Inc of Santa Clara, California has announced what it claims is the world’s first joint US-Japanese one-chip memory card controller, the MB86301: the controller is based on the standards of the PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association standard and the Japanese JEIDA industry group’s Version 4 standard and is a general-purpose microprocessor peripheral device used between the data and address bus of the host microprocessor and the 68-pin IC memory card socket; the controller is expected to be used in notebook and laptop computers and was designed by Fujitsu Microelectronics in conjunction with Databook Inc of Ithaca New York, which manufactures IC card-related hardware and system software; the controller supports reading and writing of static RAM, Flash memory, EPROM, EEPROM, OTPR cards, and the reading of mask ROM.
