Counterpoint(s) to JT cancer...
FROM RB
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By: wbucukjr
Reply To: None Saturday, 5 Feb 2000 at 1:34 PM EST
Post # of 203730
G3 Phones and why EDIG WILL BE INSIDE
One only has to pay attention to the events surrounding EDIG and their announced partners these past few weeks to lift the haze from a very fast moving and sometimes confusing digital landscape. This is a rather long post, so please bear with me and read it to the end.
In my limited techological capacity, I take the following parameters as a given for future digital applications:
1. Applications will become more complex over time and require operating systems that will be flexible, energy efficient and designed around a small "footprint", i.e. small file size.
2. FLASH MEMORY will be the overwhelming data storage medium of choice. Its in the news almost daily now and is projected to be a soaring market for at least the next 5 years.
3. All in one devices will proliferate the market within the next 12 to 18 months.... a virtual PC in your pocket.
4. ALL MAJOR TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES (Texas Instruments, Intel, IBM, Microsoft and others) have all recently announced a shift in focus to the internet wireless marketplace.
And now... the specifics surrounding EDIG, and in particular the INTEL connection.
1. We have relationships or are partnered with major market-shaping players in the digital arena. They wouldn't be working with an OTC-BB company this closely if EDIG didn't have something to compliment the aforementioned shift in focus. (A focus shift ONLY RECENTLY ANNOUNCED, but possibly in the big corporate planning and development stages for more than a year.)
2. Skip Matthews joins the EDIG board of directors upon his "retirement" from INTEL. From the EDIG 7/15/99 press release: Initially in charge of development of equipment for manufacturing at Intel, Mr. Matthews has worked the last eight years marketing Intel's flash memory products. He has focused on innovative audio and photographic applications for flash memory during the last four years.
More from Mr. Matthews from the same PR: Mr. Matthews stated, "I was attracted to e.Digital because they were the first to adopt flash memory in an audio recorder. There is great potential for further application of e.Digital's technology in Internet music players and even more advanced audio applications such as speech-to-text and text-to-speech systems." He continued, "In the twenty years since the advent of the PC, people have typed, read, and clicked. In the next twenty years we are going to talk and listen to handheld devices that interact with our PC's. The biggest areas for growth are in the technology that helps make that possible."
3. Five weeks after Mr. Matthews, we add Allen Cocumelli from Simplenet to the board of EDIG. From EDIG 8/25/99 press release: Fred Falk, president and CEO of e.Digital, said, "Allen has vast experience in growing small businesses and his contacts in the technology and Internet communities will help leverage the further growth of e.Digital. The addition of Allen and the recent appointment of Skip Matthews bring significant outside industry experience and further strengthens our Board of Directors." Falk continued, "Allen's familiarity and success with strategic development will be extremely valuable as e.Digital continues to roll out its portable designs and MicroOS? operating system for Internet-compatible, handheld voice, music, and image recorders."
Simple Network Communications, Inc., a premier provider of Web hosting services, was founded in March 1996, and was acquired by broadcast.com in November 1998. In April 1999, broadcast.com was acquired by Yahoo! Inc.
4. And now, something directly from INTEL:
The Driving Need for Flash Software Management in Wireless
By Charles Brown, Intel Corp.
(EDITORIAL NOTE BY WBUCUKJR: What Charles Brown goes into much detail describing, without specifically mentioning our little gem, IS EDIG'S MicroOS.)
Cellular phones usage has dramatically changed. In the past, people relied on cell phones as a voice communication tool. Today, however, people depend on cell phone to be wireless information appliances that combine voice, paging, Internet, and e-mail services in a single,
tiny handheld device.
The advantages of wireless information appliances are obvious: convenience, portability, and interoperability. With these devices you can process contact, scheduling, and task management information. You can access data from Internet sites while seated, walking, or driving. You can
selectively synchronize and exchange data with notebook computers and other sources, such as wireless application protocol (WAP)-enabled Internet sites. These devices offer a raft of features, all delivering on the vision of true "anytime, anywhere" communication.
Flash memory provides an inexpensive and efficient way to store nonvolatile data and code. However, the distinct characteristics of randomly accessible flash memory require software management for it to function efficiently as a persistent data repository. The cost effectiveness
of flash memory is achieved by organizing the memory in addressable ranges or blocks. The storage, access, and reclamation of data blocks in a real-time environment, such as a cellular phone, necessitates software intervention. In addition to basic data management, wireless Internet applications must address data throughput, common access formats, and security issues.
These are just some of the memory subsystem challenges facing wireless designers. (WBUCUKJR NOTE: Ever heard of EDIG's MicroOS??????)
Third-generation (3G) wireless handheld devices must allow users to gain access to new network capabilities and manage data records. The confined size, low cost, and
restricted power of these 3G digital products place greater demands on the storage subsystem. In
the past, designers used separate memory devices for storage of operational code and small, simple data structures such as contact lists. Now, size and cost stipulations dictate single-chip solutions for storage of
both executable code and data. New wireless connectivity architectures, such as Bluetooth, link the handset to a vast reservoir of data storage capability on the
notebook PC, satisfying the needs of the most demanding users.
Besides parameter storage, memory management software needs to perform a variety of tasks, such as invalid data management, power-loss recovery, and wear leveling.
When a block of flash memory includes enough invalid data, valid information must be reclaimed by moving it to a new
location in the flash component. Then the block can be erased. All of this takes place without affecting the applications that must continue to run.
See Raging Bull POST 202203 for the balance of the text.
5. Intel this past week buys Rockwell plant in Colorado Springs in order to ramp up Intel production of flash memory storage chips.
6. THE VERY NEXT DAY, Intel announces a contract to supply ERICCSON with $1.5 billion of flash memory modules over the next several years.
7. THE FOLLOWING DAY, Intel and Ericcson announce a partnering to jointly develop next generation internet devices.
I know this has been a long post, and only those truly interested in meaningful research will take the time to read it.
If all of this doesn't give you reason to hold onto your shares and accumulate more before Wallstreet finds out about all that EDIG is involved in, then by all means, continue to waste your time arguing with the likes of Pit and Sarge and all of his friends.
I'll keep on spending my time telling my friends why EDIG is a steal at this price range.
Remember in a recent internet broadcast interview when Fred Falk was asked specifically if the MicroOS was embedded on Intel chips, and after smiling like a cat with a canary in his mouth, the response was, "No, not at this time."
To me, that is as close as Fred could come to saying that it will be in the very near future without facing SEC charges in light of the NASDAQ application filing.
KNOW WHAT YOU HOLD! Long and strong EDIG.
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