Shigeo Araki Sony Corporation THE COMPACT MEMORY STICK RECORDING CARD CONNECTS VARIOUS

With rapidly falling semiconductor memory costs, compact and removable memory cards are beginning to catch on. Most memory cards, however, are primarily designed as computer peripherals—they do not provide the copyright protection that is essential in handling copyrighted materials such as music. As a result, an optimum media for audiovisual appliances has not been available. In response to this need, we developed the Memory Stick, which consists of a controller and memory. It