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To: Michael A. Gottesman who wrote (10465)	4/19/2000 12:58:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Mike, Thanks for posting the Microsoft news. We got 8 points from that right out of the box. SanDisk, Inventor of CompactFlash, Announces Continued CompactFlash Support for Windows-Powered Pocket PC's. I love that. "Inventor of CompactFlash" in the title line. This is outstanding work by the Marketing and PR people at SanDisk. Way to go Nelson Chan and crew!!! Way to go Bob Goligoski!!! siliconinvestor.com By teaming with Microsoft and its other Pocket PC Launch Partners, SanDisk is helping to expand the functionality and usage of today's Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and putting the power of the PC in the user's pocket. "Pocket PCs" have considerably more power than traditional PDAs according to Microsoft, with a 32-bit CPU and 16 MB to 32MB of Random Access Memory (RAM). With the addition of industry standard CF expansion slots, users can extend their storage and connectivity options. For example, users can take a CF card and insert it into the Pocket PC to add up to 192MB of flash storage. "By allowing users to do more personal customization, and by providing a more powerful device than the average PDA, Pocket PCs can better meet the individual, professional and personal needs of consumers," said Nelson Chan, senior vice president of worldwide marketing for SanDisk Corporation. "Consumers will be able to use products such as SanDisk's CompactFlash cards to back-up data, images or audio and be able to use new applications with the extra storage they get from high capacity SanDisk CF cards," said Chan. Pocket PCs have a built-in audio player that allows users to listen to their favorite CD quality, MP3 and Windows Media formatted music. On a typical 64MB CF card, users will be able to listen to one hour of playback using MP3 and two hours of musical playback using the Windows Media Format. "Windows-powered Pocket PCs are the most expandable device in the industry, designed to meet our customers' growing needs," said Rogers Weed, director of marketing for the Mobile Devices Division at Microsoft Corp. "By using industry standards-based Compact Flash solutions developed by SanDisk, our customers have a continually growing choice of hundreds of possible expansion options." Thanks to Rocky for tempering my enthusiasm and to Joe for defending me. I apologize for my cheerleading. It got a bit overdone. I realize that now. But I still think this is very exciting stuff. And as the Linux OS for portable devices becomes available I hope to see additional support for CF. Either way SanDisk's flash memory innovations will be enabling. They are the final common denominator in all the consumer electronics tools and Internet Appliances (IA's) that are popular today and will be popular for the foreseeable future. Finally, it is important to remember that you will have more megabytes of CompactFlash, MMC and SDMC then you will have RAM in the device that uses it or even on your home PC...by a long shot. That is an astounding realization. Ausdauer