Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ausdauer who wrote (15459)	10/10/2000 3:34:55 PM
From: Don Hess	Respond to of 60323

If prices have risen from $2/megabyte to $4.30/megabyte and SNDK is able to process 60% of its orders (these numbers from the WSJ article), doesn't that put us ahead of the game, revenue-wise? - Don

To: Ausdauer who wrote (15459)	10/10/2000 4:03:09 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Pitiful performance by sandisk today...worse than expected.

To: Ausdauer who wrote (15459)	10/10/2000 9:35:22 PM
From: Binx Bolling	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Hitachi, Toshiba Sample 512-Mbit Flash Devices (10/10/00, 8:36 p.m. ET) By Anthony Cataldo, EE Times Hitachi Ltd. and Toshiba Corp. have each introduced 512-Mbit flash devices, with twice the density of their respective highest-density flash devices. The 512-Mbit milestone was made possible by moves to smaller process geometries and advanced storage cell techniques. The parts are intended for use in flash storage cards. Toshiba's NAND-type memory uses a 0.16-micron process technology jointly developed with U.S. partner SanDisk. Hitachi (stock: HIT), meanwhile, leveraged its 0.18-micron process technology together with a multilevel-cell storage technology. To extend the capacity potential even further, both companies are using multichip packages so that two 512-Mbit die can be stacked in one TSOP. That scheme enables small-form-factor flash cards with up to 128 Mbytes. A flash card at that density can, for example, store two hours of compressed music, according to Hitachi. Toshiba plans to use the devices as the basis for 64-Mbyte and 128-Mbyte SmartMedia and SD flash cards. Hitachi, meanwhile, will incorporate its devices into a 128-Mbyte MultiMediaCard. Hitachi will also mount 16 of its stacked 1-Gbit devices into one PC-ATA card for 2 Gbytes of capacity. Jointly designed with Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Hitachi's 512-Mbit AND-type flash chip can store 2 bits of data for every memory cell, a voltage-splitting technique known as multilevel-cell storage (MLC). Hitachi started using MLC several years ago with its 256-Mbit-generation device. Though several flash vendors use this method of squeezing in more bits per cell, it has been adopted sparingly because of reliability concerns and the complexity involved in dividing the voltage into discrete levels that correspond with different data values. Hitachi's 512-Mbit device is sampling in Japan for about $129, while the 1-Gbit stacked device lists at about $257. Both come in a 48-pin TSOP type-I package. Toshiba's samples are also priced at $129 for the 512-Mbit part and $257 for the 1-Gbit. techweb.com