Introduction to ExpressCard Technology

When you sell ExpressCard products, you're selling more than just what your customer wants -- you are giving them the ability to connect with a whole new world of notebook experiences. You can be confident your customer will be happy with their ExpressCard module's speed, reliability, ease of use, and compatibility with other modules and notebook computers. With ExpressCard technology, your customers gain an easy, secure way of adding new functionality to their notebooks -- while improving speed and reliability.

What ExpressCard Technology Delivers

• Easy installation: Your customers benefit from plug'n'play installation with auto-configuration. Just plug it in and go!
• Hot swappable: Your customers will be able to easily move modules between different ExpressCard-compliant notebook computers. Modules automatically configure the necessary software.
• Smaller size: Customers can see a noticeable size and weight difference with ExpressCard modules, which are roughly half the size and lighter than the old PC Card.
• Improved performance: Your customers can not only purchase the many USB applications available today, including wireless WAN and small memory card adapters, they now have access to the high-performance PCI Express applications, including Gigabit Ethernet, 1394b and eSATA.

Industry Support

Support for ExpressCard technology is widespread throughout the computer industry. See PCMCIA's full member list here. Among those supporting development of the ExpressCard standard are:

Technology Benefits

Introduction to ExpressCard Technology In Depth

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