Hitachi Ltd Japan is to ship samples of its new 45Mb CompactFlash memory card in December, claiming it has the largest storage capacity of any CompactFlash card currently on the market. The card, which contains six 64 megabit flash memory chips sourced from SanDisk Corp, is said to use less power than existing two-chip controller cards. Hitachi said that it plans to sell cards using 256-megabit flash memory chips in future and added that it expects demand for higher capacity storage cards to increase as digital still cameras and hand-held computers take off.
