>>As has been stated multiple times, Intel exited this market because it could not compete with SNDK.<<
Hmm...i don't know if i believe this. How could Intel not compete?
Doubt is good. Facts are good too:
"Intel Sells Flash Card Business To Centennial
(01/03/00, 3:11 p.m. ET) Electronic Buyers' News
Intel has sold off its once-promising flash
memory card business to Centennial
Technologies, which hopes to use the
technology and product line to increase its
presence in the networking and
telecommunications markets.
In exchange for the business, Intel received 16 percent
of Centennial's outstanding shares, a note for the
amount of $6 million, and $4.5 million to be paid upon
the fulfillment of certain unspecified contingencies.
The sale marks a rather inglorious end to Intel's flash
card dreams, which were shattered following the
success of rival technology developed by SanDisk.
Intel's linear flash-based Miniature Card, a device with
no on-board controller, relies chiefly on sophisticated
software and interaction with the system's host CPU to
enable a small-format storage medium aimed at devices
like digital still cameras and PDAs.
While Intel's groundwork in the field has helped it
maintain its lead in the discrete flash IC market, its
Miniature Card was defeated in a heated standards
battle with SanDisk's CompactFlash. The field has far
from narrowed, however, with CompactFlash now
fending off challenges from several other card
technologies, such as Toshiba's SmartMedia device and
the MemoryStick from Sony. "
Seems Intel also had trouble competing with QCOM:
" Intel Backs Away From CDMA
Chip Market
(08/25/00, 5:33 p.m. ET) By Mark LaPedus, Semiconductor Business
News
In a setback for its fledging cell phone semiconductor
business, Intel is quietly backing away from the CDMA
chip set market as part of a plan to focus on new and
more promising wireless IC segments, SBN has
learned.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company entered the
IS-95-compliant chipset market for CDMA handsets
only eight months ago after agreeing to acquire
cell-phone IC specialist DSP Communications Inc. for
$1.6 billion. But Intel Corp. (stock: INTC) had little
luck in garnering design wins in CDMA, due in part to
stiff competition from the leading supplier of chip sets in
this booming business -- Qualcomm Inc."
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