ExpressCard

Formerly codenamed NEWCARD, ExpressCard is a new standard replacing the PC Card standard. ExpressCard is also a standard that has been developed by PCMCIA and supports a much higher speeds, supports USB 2.0, smaller, uses less voltage, lower cost, and is hot-swappable. As can be seen from the below illustration, ExpressCards are physically different then PC Cards and are available in two different formats: ExpressCard 54 and 34.

ExpressCards

Also see: NEWCARD, PC Card, PCMCIA