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Technology Stocks : SILICON STORAGE SSTI Flash Mem -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Andrew Vance who wrote (1525)	1/15/2001 3:23:08 PM
From: Andrew Vance	Respond to of 1881

This was something we came across that we found real interesting, especially if you make a typo error on your keyboard. Notice that the N key is right next to the M key, giving you two compeletely different results, but wind up in the same place anyway.<GGG> Another bit of fuel for the hopefully growing Flash Inferno. Andrew Radaview Newsletter 10/15/01 Forbes.com Ten O'Clock Tech: SmartDisk's Flash Media By Matthew Herper Once upon a time, people bought music on vinyl. Then compact discs took over, and beloved record players everywhere gathered dust. A similar thing happened when 5.25-inch floppy disk drives (remember those?) were replaced by 3.5-inch disk drives. Now, Naples, Fla.-based SmartDisk (SMDK) is hoping to help you deal as such problems loom anew. Scads of companies are using postage stamp-sized flash memory cards in digital cameras, camcorders, MP3 audio players and cell phones. SmartDisk's clever FlashPath devices that will let you use the memory cards in a 3.5-inch floppy drive, or, for music, an audio cassette player. Companies like Hitachi (HIT), Panasonic, Samsung are using the cards. FlashPath supports the three leading flash memory cards with different FlashPath adaptors: the MultiMediaCard made by Sandisk (SNDK - news), which can hold either 32 megabytes or 64 MB of memory; Toshiba's Smartmedia; and the 8 MB memory sticks made by Sony (SNE). What's positively charming about SmartDisk's solutions is that they look and act just like the old-fashioned objects that flash memory cards may someday replace. The company's media readers look and work just like floppy disks; simply insert the multimedia card and shove the adapter into the disk drive. They may cost anywhere between $60 and $100 based on what kind of multimedia card is being used, and are available at the company's Web site. Likewise, the company's FlashTrax looks just like an audiocassette: Stick in a multimedia card or memory stick, and you can play digital music on a car stereo or boom box. That may make the transition to using smaller memory devices easier.