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To: clean86 who wrote (28182)5/11/2005 1:01:38 AM
From: Ausdauer  Respond to of 60323
 
Clean, Lexar probably has a diminishing market share...

... and offers no advantages for future form factors.

Lexar hurt SanDisk's potential licensing stream by cracking the '987 patent and by
disclosing possible improprieties that occured during the development of the CF standard.
This is old news and a missed opportunity, but acquiring Cirrus Logic's patents and
an engineer or two would have been a good idea back in the mid- to late 90's.

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Wonder why Sandisk doesn't just buy Lexar???

Aus