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To: docpaul who wrote (13958)	8/16/2000 1:58:12 AM
From: wily	Respond to of 60323

docpaul, Being the nerd type that I am, I found myself an inexpensive flash card, and opened it to find two chips inside. My assumption (maybe incorrectly so), is that one of these pieces (the smaller of the two) is a piece of NOR, or code storage flash used in showing the "accessor" of the data how to access the information kept on the larger piece of NAND or sequential write memory. Did the card look anything like this inside? ssti.com One of the chips is the controller (I'm guessing the smaller one). It's primarily logic -- and I think it has some NOR Flash memory on-board to store its programming code. That's a pretty confusing picture since both chips have the SST logo on them, whereas we now know that SST doesn't produce their own hi-density chips (or contract to have them built). Why brand it as your own if no one is going to see it? wily