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To: limtex who wrote (14831)	9/17/2000 9:17:46 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Limtex, Here is an old link I fished up... Tiny card targets cell phones SanDisk Corp. and Siemens Microelectronics Inc. have unveiled a tiny mass-storage device called the MultiMediaCard (MMC) that promises to put muscle behind the claims of next-generation smart phones and other mobile-communications gear. The companies have worked jointly on developing the MMC storage format since 1995. SanDisk, Sunnyvale, Calif., will manufacture a flash version of the card, while the Cupertino, Calif.-based Siemens unit will initially supply a ROM version. Both products will be available for sampling in January, with volume shipments starting in the second quarter of 1998, the vendors said. Siemens said it plans to eventually manufacture a flash version of the MMC using 0.25-micron CMOS process technology. techweb.com It seems to confirm what I believed was true. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Here is a related link that mentions why open standards were created for CF and MMC. SanDisk's open standards group, the CompactFlash Association (CFA), now boasts 109 members, including camera and PC heavyweights such as Eastman Kodak Co., Fuji Photo Film Co., Hitachi Ltd., IBM Corp., Polaroid Corp., and Sony Corp., according to Nelson Chan, SanDisk's vice president of marketing. "We've made CompactFlash an open standard-not because we're masochistic or because we don't want to make money, but because we would rather own 40% of a $1 billion business than 100% of a $1 million business," Chan said. techweb.com I still don't completely understand how the open standards work. SanDisk's pursuit of Lexar clearly indicates that some portions of SanDisk's IP will be enforced against package assemblers. Ausdauer