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To: Road Walker who wrote (20493)	6/27/2001 6:44:51 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 60323

John, flash media will have a hard time competing with blank CD's at 50¢ a piece. I think the digital audio applications will be harder to win unless ruggedness is the key selling point. Handheld/mobile audio will be a target market, but boomboxes and automotive applications are less certain. Did you see this? Microtech's newest CF card...based on a 1Gb NAND flash architecture...achieves a sustained write speed of up to 3.2 megabytes per second and a sustained read speed of up to 5.4MB per second. I guess the higher density NAND solves the write speed problem as prior SanDisk press releases hinted. At 3.2 MB/sec this type of performance really overshadows the Lexar Media controller speeds. Aus