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To: Binx Bolling who wrote (8221)	11/23/1999 5:12:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Binx, regarding: Micron Technology A typical application is a high-performance WinCE(TM) appliance that boots off ROM or Flash and loads 16MBytes of WinCE code into SDRAM. Rather than copy ROM/Flash into SDRAM, or limit the performance with slower sync-ROM or burst flash, redundant SDRAM can be replaced with SyncFlash memory and the ROM/Flash can be eliminated. The WinCE OS can be preloaded in SyncFlash memory resulting in a cost efficient, high performance system. Didn't we discuss something like this here on this thread? Steve Walstra, what do you think? Anybody? Ausdauer

To: Binx Bolling who wrote (8221)	11/23/1999 5:45:00 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

I think one of the key points in this announcement concerns one of the intended applications - storing an operating system, or perhaps both an operating system and an application (capacity permitting), and being able to send that application to DRAM more efficiently than with other systems. I'm not sure how much this feature would improve storing and retrieval of large pixel images or music. If it means that I don't have to wait 15 to 20 seconds between taking a photo in highest resolution and writing it to CF, then I can see some possibilities for competition with SNDK. But the announcement does not strike me as being able to improve performance in that way. Perhaps someone with more technical knowledge can help us here.