Memory card makers

Pablo · 7th December 2004

Hello each,

A question that I put in the Fuji forum, but it does not seem to be too active.
Goes like this :-

Out of interest, I have been told that there are only 3 makers of all the memory cards.
One of them being Sandisk.
A point in this direction is, I have stocks of XD cards from Sandisk in Sandisk boxes,
but the cards have the usual Fuji logo etc on them.

Does anyone have views on this

mpenza · 7th December 2004

no major surprise. There're lots of "oem" around. for eg, Lexar SD cards used to use Panasonic chips. also, the proprietary batteries used in different brands of cameras are probably made by a few OEMs.

HeWolf · 8th December 2004

May have some link: I think only Fujifilm and Olympus developed and use xD card format. Hence may be (I guess) sandisk produces the card under Fuji licience.

Pablo · 8th December 2004

Originally Posted by HeWolf

May have some link: I think only Fujifilm and Olympus developed and use xD card format. Hence may be (I guess) sandisk produces the card under Fuji licience.

Hi HeWolf,
Yes I believe that is true. ( I don't think either Fuji or Olympus actually maunfacture cards).
I think (I have no advice on this) that another manufacturer of cards is Verbatim.

What my guess is; as there are dozens of brand names for say CF cards and SD cards.
That some of the cheaper more obscure name cards, that have slower times and appear less reliable,
may be stocks of cards made by say the big three and don't meet their final test criteria

7th December 2004	#1
Pablo Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Blue/Green Planet Posts: 1,855	Memory card makers Hello each, A question that I put in the Fuji forum, but it does not seem to be too active. Goes like this :- Out of interest, I have been told that there are only 3 makers of all the memory cards. One of them being Sandisk. A point in this direction is, I have stocks of XD cards from Sandisk in Sandisk boxes, but the cards have the usual Fuji logo etc on them. Does anyone have views on this __________________ Time, is an effortless construction :)

7th December 2004	#2
mpenza Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: New York City Posts: 13,397	no major surprise. There're lots of "oem" around. for eg, Lexar SD cards used to use Panasonic chips. also, the proprietary batteries used in different brands of cameras are probably made by a few OEMs.

8th December 2004	#3
HeWolf Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Punggol 21 Posts: 397	May have some link: I think only Fujifilm and Olympus developed and use xD card format. Hence may be (I guess) sandisk produces the card under Fuji licience.