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: Binx Bolling who wrote (16998)	12/8/2000 1:47:30 AM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Binx, re: "United States Patent 6,157,983". If I may ask, what's so special about this concept that it is worthy of a patent? Perhaps the people who invented the "latch", "address decoder" and "data register" might have deserved patents. But those patents would have expired long ago. IMHO, this SNDK patent application doesn't contain anything "unique" or "imaginative". I suppose that the only reason SNDK filed this application was to do so before someone else got the U.S. Patent Office's "rubber stamp". Craig ref: "An EEPROM system includes flash EEPROM cells organized into subarrays. Pairs of subarrays share row address decoders by sharing word lines, and individual subarrays have dedicated column address decoders and data registers. Each row decoder has an associated row address latch, and each column decoder has an associated column address latch. Multiple data chunks are concurrently written into the subarrays by first latching chunk addresses into the row and column address latches, and corresponding chunks of data into the data registers, then activating a programming signal to initiate concurrent programming and verifying the programming of the data chunks."