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To: Steve 667 who wrote (18018)	1/8/2001 2:13:31 AM
From: The Prophet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Yes, I'm sure: We have announced an agreement with Matsushita and Toshiba to jointly develop and promote a next generation flash memory card called the Secure Digital Memory Card. Under this agreement, Secure Digital Memory Card royalty-bearing licenses will be granted to other flash memory card manufacturers, which will increase the competition for our Secure Digital Memory Card, CompactFlash and MultiMediaCard products. In addition, Matsushita and Toshiba have commenced selling Secure Digital Memory Cards that will compete directly with our products. While other flash card manufacturers will be required to pay the SD Association license fees and royalties which will be shared between Matsushita, Toshiba and SanDisk, there will be no royalties or license fees payable among the three companies for their respective sales of the Secure Digital Memory Card. Thus, we will forfeit potential royalty income from Secure Digital Memory Card sales by Matsushita and Toshiba. biz.yahoo.com