ExpressCard Standard 2.0 accommodating faster speeds soon

Filed under: Laptops, Peripherals

Somewhere in a dark corner at CeBIT, PCMCIA managed to let out a whisper that informed a few flies on a nearby wall that ExpressCard Standard 2.0 was on the way. Today, however, we’ve received confirmation that said update is on track for a “second-half 2008 / early 2009″ delivery. Put simply, v2.0 is “being developed to accommodate the significantly faster speeds increasingly demanded by today’s high-performance mobile technologies,” and we’re also told that it will comply with PCI-Express 2.0 and SuperSpeed USB, which is “planned for release later this year as part of the USB 3.0 specification.” For the paranoid, you can rest assured that the new release will be very backwards compatible, though we aren’t told when to expect hardware that will reflect the changes.

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