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To: Bill Zeman who wrote (4811)	2/20/1999 8:09:00 PM
From: Rex Dwyer	Read Replies (1) of 60323

Bill, ICs are Integrated Circuits. ATA: I forget, but its the standard Microsoft DOS floppy/hard drive interface standard. SNDK gets a royalty for the solid State drive only on CompactFlash, PCMCIA drive chips, and MMC cards. These have an ATA interface. i.e. they act like disk drives, have a file structure, etc. You pop one of these in a Win CE machine and it gives you an extra drive on your screen. You get a E:\>_ prompt or something like that on a DOS machine. It is windows compatible. The SmartMedia looks like something that Windows can't talk to directly. So you have this memory driver that handles the task of talking to the SmartMedia. Isolated devices like D-cams and .mp3 recorders have more leeway in doing a proprietary memory format since they aren't trying to be compatible with other devices. But as far as Win CE machines go, I have seen nothing but CompactFlash. If the trend favors SmartMedia in .mp3 players, then there is a chance that they get really cheap and CompactFlash doesn't get the volume/cost curve advantage, and essentially becomes the "Beta" format of the VCR wars. I am hoping for the other way around. That is why I think it very important for SanDisk to get many .mp3 player design wins!!! Rex ($24 5/8)

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