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To: Process Boy who wrote (75455)	10/14/1999 12:02:00 AM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1572859

Re: "I am wondering if there were any good pointers on the net to glean some head to head comparisons of intel products vs. AMD products." I don't have a head to head comparison. On quick notice, this is the only thing I could come up with and it's over a year old. "Intel is also the world's top supplier of flash memory chips" idg.net EP

To: Process Boy who wrote (75455)	10/14/1999 12:06:00 AM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572859

Process Boy, Re:"flash market" The flash market is not homogeneous like the dram market for example where 99% of all suppliers parts are essentially interchangeable. My understanding (which is rather limited) is that Intel is the density leader. So they have things like multi-level flash - where they store 2 data bits in one cell for example. There products are ideal for stuff like Boot flash for bios etc and where cost/bit is king. AMD is the leader in low voltage single supply flash. their parts are not so dense but more usefull and felxible when reprogramming etc. It is ideal for portable apps such as MP3 players etc. The applications market is driven by the core architetcures such as sector sizes and erase times etc as well as wether it is nand or nor devices. It is a whole lot more complicated than just ramping fab capacity I believe. regards, Kash