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To: reynoso who wrote (69456)	1/30/2002 1:12:15 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

<Isn't combination CPU/flash chip just following Intel> Yes, but AMD's flash has much faster read/write times and maximum number of write cycles. These are important characteristics for the phone market. Question for the thread: Do either AMD or Intel make flash chips that include some RAM, so that a CPU doesn't have to wait for the long delays of writing to the flash memory for code that needs it? (e.g., the first 16K bytes are RAM and the next 48K are flash memory) (I assume having a separate RAM chip would increase costs) Petz