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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (27417)	2/6/2005 10:40:29 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

I guess it is time to invest in flash. I know a certain company you can get for, oh, about 25 bucks a share. (g)

To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (27417)	2/7/2005 12:02:52 PM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

Sarmad, I don't know how big the video market will eventually become. I think consumer acceptance will be the real test. The possible benefit of flash will be a nice hybrid product with a high res digital camera as a basis for purchase, and high quality digital video as a bonus. Whether flash or mini-HD succeeds is another question. There are pluses and minuses to both. Removable media may be a plus. The average consumer is already used to pulling media out of digital cameras and employing card readers. Also, a removable medium gives the user the chance to exchange blank media and copy to an archiving medium directly after, while a fixed HD would imply the need to fill the medium and then download relatively large amounts of data at one time. Also, if the media were to malfunction a relatively large chunk of data would be lost. Again, a 4.7 gigabyte flash card corresponding to the same size of a standard DVD would be quite useful, IMHO. Most people will overfill their PC with 100 or 250 gigabytes of storage. Aus

To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (27417)	2/8/2005 12:47:05 AM
From: Sam Citron	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Toshiba and SanDisk Develop 8-Gigabit NAND Flash Memory Chip With 70nm Process Technology Monday February 7, 7:00 pm ET SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2005--Toshiba Corporation and SanDisk® Corporation (Nasdaq:SNDK - News) today announced an 8-gigabit (Gb) NAND flash memory chip fabricated with 70-nanometer (nm) process technology that ushers in the new era of gigabyte chips: 1-gigabyte data storage capacity on a single chip. The new chip was today reported at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2005 in San Francisco. The new NAND flash memory utilizes multi-level cell (MLC) technology that allows two bits of data to be stored in one memory cell, doubling memory capacity. Innovative circuit design techniques were utilized to improve chip area efficiency resulting in an 8Gb chip size that is less than 5 percent larger than the previous generation 4Gb chip on 90 nanometer. At 146 square millimeters, the 8Gb chip has an areal density of 6 billion bits or 3 billion transistors per square centimeter (20 billion transistors per square inch of silicon). Performance is maximized by adoption of fast writing circuit techniques, which reduce data write times and support a fast write speed of 6-megabytes per second. Read speed of 60MB/sec., which is 40% faster than previous generation, has been achieved by a combination of burst mode and high read bandwidth. Toshiba and SanDisk plan to start production of flash memory products based on the new 8Gb NAND flash memory technology this summer. In CY 2006, this 8Gb chip is expected to become the production workhorse for the venture between Toshiba and SanDisk, and bring significant cost reductions to the flash storage products of the two companies. The companies also plan to commercialize a 16Gb NAND flash memory IC that stacks two of the 8Gb NAND flash memories in a single package. biz.yahoo.com