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To: Binx Bolling who wrote (8565)	1/4/2000 12:09:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Binx, From an internal and market perspective, the timing was right for Intel to find a buyer for our flash card line," said Curt Nichols, general manager of Intel's Flash Products Division, based in Folsom, Calif. translation: "We are glad to have this albatross off our necks." Ausdauer SanDisk...See the Big Picture!

To: Binx Bolling who wrote (8565)	1/4/2000 2:38:00 PM
From: Artslaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Lest we rest on our laurels, let me make one more quote from that article: 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 Corp.'s SmartMedia device and the MemoryStick from Sony Corp. No new news there, but it's not like SanDisk won the war (yet). Steve