Panasonic today announced at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas the company's new AJ-PCD35, a five-slot P2 solid-state memory drive with an ExpressCard interface that will dramatically increase simultaneous access to P2 content on ExpressCard-equipped notebook or desktop computers. Until this announcement, P2 ExpressCard interface access was limited to a single card at a time using a third-party adaptor.

An eSATA port might not have been your first priority when specifying your latest notebook PC, but as external storage gets cheaper and files get bigger you may end up regretting that. Greenhouse have a possible solution in the shape of their EXC-ESA2 ExpressCard. With two eSATA ports, it’s a straightforward way of adding the high-speed connection to your laptop.

Sonnet has released three new Gigabit networking products for both older and new Macs: Presto Gigabit Pro PCI network adapter card, the Presto Gigabit PCIe Pro PCI Express network adapter card, and the Presto Gigabit Ethernet Pro ExpressCard/34 network adapter card. These Sonnet Gigabit Ethernet cards expand or add Gigabit Ethernet connectivity in any compatible computer, and offer enhanced performance through support for link aggregation with onboard Ethernet ports, and jumbo packet data transfers. Sonnet says the Presto Gigabit Pro network adapter cards deliver enhanced networking support as well as offer gigabit speeds over common CAT-5 cabling; they also support 1000/100/10BaseT auto-negotiation and full/half duplex communication.

Responding to the requirement for powerful, portable solutions for avionics testing applications, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms on April 14 announced three ExpressCard interfaces for testing critical aircraft systems.

According to GE, the R15-EC is a dual port MIL-STD-1553 ExpressCard Interface; the RAF-EC is a dual port ARINC 664 ExpressCard Interface; and the RAR-EC is a multichannel ARINC 429 ExpressCard interface. The three new cards, which are all RoHS compliant, will be demonstrated on GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms’ booth (#13) at AMC 2008 (April 14 – 17, Tulsa, Oklahoma).

The three ExpressCards are available in a range of configurations, including card only, card and appropriate analyzer, and a full turnkey portable analyzer system that includes the interface card, protocol analyzer and semi-rugged laptop.

Aaxeon released ExpressCards to provide a reliable solution for notebook PCs to connect serial peripherals such as GPS receivers, serial printers/plotters, barcode scanners, PDAs, cellular phones, and fax/modems over its ExpressCard slots. These ExpressCards provide a scalable, high-speed, serial I/O bus that maintains backwards compatibility with CardBus applications and drivers.

The new ExpressCards are compact in size and has low power requirements to support major serial portable devices. These cards are ideal for a wide variety of applications including field data collection, industrial control and monitoring.

The Express Card Gigaset SE68 WiMAX permits mobile broadband access at up to 20 Mbps and thus enables the use of very rich media and data applications on the road. As a result, it increases mobility and flexibility for professional and private users alike.

RME's HDSPe ExpressCard MADI is a true PCI Express solution, which consequently takes full advantage of the new format, achieving significant performance gains in multitrack audio.