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To: Ausdauer who wrote (17847)	12/31/2000 12:45:25 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Read Replies (2) of 60323

Aus, I assume that any flash capacity will become commoditized. And the only high margins will be leading edge features such as speed, and density, power consumption and interface. In an application that I am working on, we use a geographic map database for cars. I am using a 440MB SanDisk IDE card. Cost is $1200. The reason I can't use rotating disk is condensation in sub-zero cold weather. Also vibration. But that will not be a big seller application. (EDIT>)This is a test application, with a 15 vehicle fleet. Prices will have to get much lower to allow reasonable sales. Do photography applications need higher capacities than 64MB ? I think color film has 2000x2000 pixel per inch resolution. In thousands of colors. That is equal to approx 8MB/frame. With compression let's say 1 MB/picture. Does that make sense ? If it does, then probably the 64MB card is adequate, and price will go to the commodity level. And any excess profits will have to come from branding based on writing speed and reliability.

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