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To: fyodor_ who wrote (34876)4/4/2001 5:50:55 PM
From: Road WalkerRead Replies (3) | Respond to of 275872
 
fyodor,

re: "AMD has just recently begun to move into the NAND market, but the Alcatel contract was for NOR flash."

I'm surprised AMD is still strictly NOR. Could be the reason they did not honor the AMD contract. Maybe a design win by a competitor with NAND? Another excuse for Alcatel, AMD just didn't keep up with the technology?

I'm not an expert on flash, but I believe that NOR or NAND can be designed into the same applications. So you would be right to say that they are not interchangeable. But they are replaceable.

John



To: fyodor_ who wrote (34876)4/4/2001 7:53:32 PM
From: combjellyRead Replies (2) | Respond to of 275872
 
"Intel makes NAND"

Not totally true. Their StrataFlash device is a NOR-type, it just stores 4 levels of voltage per cell, so has roughly twice the number of bits per cell. This conversion takes time and makes it slow, but it sure is cheap per bit...


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