Lexar is dead...

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Fahnon

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I can't believe it, but Lexar is done as far as our needs are concerned. I pretty much only shoot with them and Sandisk and have been for years. Sad, sad day...

"Micron Technology today announced that it is discontinuing its Lexar retail removable media storage business. The decision was made as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to focus on opportunities in higher value markets and channels.

The Lexar portfolio includes memory cards, USB flash drives, readers, and storage drives for retail and OEM customers."

Full story:
http://www.newsshooter.com/2017/06/27/lexar-media-cards-discontinued/
 
Oh and what is dead is Micron's association with the Lexar brand name. If manufacturers like EgoDisk are to be followed, then the Lexar name will simply find a new addressee. And it will be abroad. Or further abroad than it is now.
 
Wow. I started using Lexar and Panasonic Gold years ago due to a recommendation from Barry. Never had a problem with either. I guess it'll be Sandisk the next round when I eventually replace them all
 
On that site, a pop-up made me agree to something in Dutch. I hope it was just to allow cookies ;)

Here is Delkin's English press release: https://www.delkin.com/products/industrial-cfexpress/ (I found it from Wikipedia, which says it was actually announced June 13 [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFexpress ]). Unfortunately there are not any readers out yet!

I look forward to CFExpress. I like the size and shape (the same as XQD, as you pointed out), a middle ground between CF and SD. CF had those pins that some people said could too easily be bent accidentally. On the other hand, SD is a little too small to write labels on and too thin and flimsy to last very long. I also like that CFExpress is using standards from mainstream computing (PCIe and NVMe). Its bandwidth at last is enough for DCI 4K raw at high-enough frame rates for most jobs (2 GB/sec is enough for 10-bit 4K raw at 180 fps).

Now we just have to wait for more companies to come out with CFExpress cards (and some to make cameras with it) and for the price of flash to become a tenth of what it is now, for an hour of 10-bit 4K raw is a terabyte.
 
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Cary Knoop said:
I think the statement was more an allusion to Nietzsche's famous quote from "Die fröhliche Wissenschaft". (The Cheerful Science).
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groveChuck said:
Nietzsche and the nihilistic nature of the memory card business? :undecided
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The memory card business is beyond the good and evil.

PS. I don't believe Delkin to the be at the forefront of the QXD/CFast throng of manufacturers, so I assume there'll be many more in the coming months.

PPS. That $30 billion Chinese plant will take a while to begin producing wafers but it may be a reason why Micros is bowing out of the open standard CFast 2.0/CFX business and is instead concentrating on the proprietary SSD and RAM technologies.
 
combatentropy said:
On that site, a pop-up made me agree to something in Dutch. I hope it was just to allow cookies ;)

Here is Delkin's English press release: https://www.delkin.com/products/industrial-cfexpress/ (I found it from Wikipedia, which says it was actually announced June 13 [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFexpress ]). Unfortunately there are not any readers out yet!...
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Delkin has a CFA link. Below is their latest PR release.

http://www.compactflash.org/assets/docs/cfapress/cfexpress_1_0_press_release_2017417.pdf

They're promising a sustainable 700 MB/s. This is the table for the required speeds for the various formats. (the default setting is 25 fps).

https://toolstud.io/video/filesize....framerate=25&timeduration=60&timeunit=seconds

PS. Computer related side note - AMD's share of the market doubled to 31% in Q2 2017 due to their Ryzen processors.
 
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