What factors have led to the increasing need for OEM system manufacturers to provide card readers?
The ability to transfer data between PCs and consumer electronic devices using high-capacity, high-speed storage media is a growing necessity for consumers in the digital age. In the past, the floppy disk drive was the main peripheral used to transfer data from PC to PC. Today a plethora of memory standards offer consumers durable solutions to bring a new level of high quality digital playback and capture, enabling users to view, listen to, and enjoy incredibly rich entertainment. The size limitation of the 1.44MB floppy disk was particularly apparent as an outdated media when digital camera file sizes grew beyond 3 Mega pixels. Current flash memory cards are available with up to 8 Gigabyte capacities, with 4 Gigabytes being predicted as the standard in the near future. Customer recognition that such cards can truly be used as a floppy replacement to exchange data files between devices has resulted in the explosion of devices that use the different memory cards. The overall consumer ma
