So I caught this little snippet over at Ars Technica, and it suggested that you could tell that the megapixel war had pretty much ground to a halt by the fact  that SDXC and CFAST cards–the two newest generation memory card types–were all but absent from the CES show.

Only Panasonic had any to show, and that was, according to Ars, indicative of the fact that the megapixel war was over–basically, the fact that there were no cards shown meant that the cards were not needed.  There was no sense in showing product that would have no market.

And that’s a good explanation but not the only one–after all, it doesn’t explain Panasonic’s cards, which were going all the way up to TWO TERABYTES (which is an ungodly lot of memory for a memory card–it’s pretty big for a hard drive!).  Why would Panasonic be there, exhibiting cards no one would “need”?

Give Ars Technica credit, they figure that this is only a temporary delay and that, next year, there will be plenty of cards getting air time.  But I really don’t think this is some kind of industry wide thing–I think it’s an economic thing.  They’re getting their marketing around to hawk the bigger badder card that’ll hold photo albums all in one place.

I’m not convinced this slowdown is all due to lack of demand.

Related posts:

1. 2TB SDXC Cards in the Works?
2. SDXC Cards to Offer 64GB Capacity Next Year?
3. Pretec CFast Storage Card Announced
4. Panasonic Unveils E-Series P2 Cards
5. SanDisk’s First X4-Based Flash Memory Cards Available Soon