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To: Rich Miani who wrote (3493)	7/8/1998 9:39:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

Rich, Thanks for the excellent link. I think it is reasonable to assume that CompactFlash was the impetus for this agreement. If this is true it may indicate a crucial step as SNDK may have licensed SSTI's innovations in CF card write times to improve their own product line. It would also indicate willingness on the part of smaller CF manufacturers to recognize SNDK's cornerstone contributions to CompactFlash technology. It may also obviate the need for SNDK to arbitrate with Lexar regarding their patented controller and reported superior write speeds. What does Lexar have to offer SNDK now? Would it be logical for SNDK to sign two cross-licensing agreements with companies that have independently achieved comparable heights with respect to write speed? It doesn't seem likely to me. IMHO, the whole issue of write speeds may actually reside in the embedded software and microprocessor of the camera which processes the CCD analog signal and performs the necessary image compression before actually writing to disk. Also, in my experience one can obtain very gratifying images with file sizes of only 150 KB. With SSTI's reported write speeds of upto 1.4 MB/sec (if I recall correctly)the issue of image turn-around seems solved. Some of the lower resolution Casio cameras and the Fuji MX-700 megapixel cameras have already solved this problem.