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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (13238)	7/22/2000 10:09:06 AM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Is SmartMedia going away? "Could you please explain why you think this is so? My oversimplification of the situation with SmartMedia was to make the argument for interoperability more compelling. If cross-platform and forward/reverse compatibility are as important as some believe, then SmartMedia is the odd man out. The trend for digital camera designs is away from SmartMedia. Again, I wish we had Olympus and Fuji on board the CompactFlash band wagon. I don't argue that SmartMedia is still a prominent player in the MP3 market. The storage capacity has peaked at 64MB. This may have something to do with the thinness of the SmartMedia card. And with the efficiencies in production SanDisk is proposing for CF and MMC the controller portion of these cards becomes a smaller and smaller fraction of the total cost of the package. You will start to see MMC pricing SmartMedia out of the MP3 market later this year or next year. Finally, SmartMedia (a NAND-based Toshiba invention) will undoubtedly be a FlashVision LLC product anyway. If Toshiba and SanDisk decide to reverse-detail SmartMedia in favor of MMC or a secure form factor such as SDMC they can certainly influence OEM's. Aus