The DailyTech have just reported that Sandisk have extended their CompactFlash family with their new 12GB and 16GB Extreme III cards, these being the highest capacity CF cards released to date and with minimum read/write speeds of 20MB/sec these are the cream of the crop.

Details here.

Professional photographers will be able to enjoy fast read/write speeds and increased capacity with Sandisk's latest additions to its Extreme III CompactFlash family. The company today announced new 12GB and 16GB models which it says are the highest capacity cards in the world.

The cards will have minimum read/write speeds of 20MB/sec thanks to the in-house developed Enhanced Super-Parallel Processing (ESP) technology. The cards are also guaranteed to function in temperatures ranging from minus 13F to 185F and include RescuePro software for image recovery in case of accidental deletion.