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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (3643)	8/31/1998 11:47:00 AM
From: Jason Rooks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Company Press Release SanDisk Announces Agreement to Supply Kodak With CompactFlash Cards for New Kodak DC210 Plus Zoom Digital Camera One SanDisk 8MB CompactFlash Memory Card Will Be Sold With Every Kodak DC210 Plus Zoom Digital Camera Purchased SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 31, 1998-- SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ:SNDK - news) announced today that Kodak will include an 8MB (megabyte) SanDisk CompactFlash removable ''digital film'' memory card with the sale of every DC210 Plus Zoom digital camera. The new Kodak megapixel digital camera, specifically designed to use CompactFlash cards, was introduced today. Nelson Chan, vice president of marketing at SanDisk, said, ''Kodak's new DC210 Plus digital camera integrates new improved features that consumers want in a digital camera. As a pioneer of digital film for digital cameras, SanDisk acknowledges that Kodak's similar pioneering inventiveness in digital imaging is endless and extremely dynamic.'' The Kodak DC210 Plus Zoom features several key improvements over its predecessor, the DC210 Zoom digital camera, including a 20 percent increase in battery life, faster startup, faster photo capture time, a multi-lingual LCD screen, date stamp and video out slide show. The DC210 Plus is available now at a suggested list price of $599. Lori Broache, director, Worldwide Marketing, and vice president, Digital and Applied Imaging, Eastman Kodak Co. [NYSE:EK - news], said, ''The CompactFlash card ensures us that performance, capacity, reliability and compatibility are never sacrificed when Kodak introduces new, advanced digital cameras. The medium has proven itself repeatedly and has been widely accepted by digital camera owners.'' SanDisk CompactFlash memory cards are available in capacities ranging between 4 and 48MB in many leading retail camera, computer and consumer electronics outlets. SanDisk Corp., the world's largest supplier of flash data storage products, designs, manufactures and markets industry-standard, solid-state data, digital imaging and audio storage products using its patented, high density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is based in Sunnyvale, Calif. The matters discussed in this news release contain forward looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties as described under the caption ''Risk Factors'' in the company's annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company assumes no obligation to update the information in this release. Note to Editors: CompactFlash and CF are trademarks of SanDisk Corp. All other trade names are either registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. SanDisk's Web site/home page address: sandisk.com

To: Craig Freeman who wrote (3643)	8/31/1998 11:56:00 AM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

Craig, I assume you mean a "non-event" rather than an "on-event" . My chief concern was the time delay between the ruling against dismissal several weeks ago and the events of last week. You speak authoritatively on this subject and I hope that you are correct. In my chats with the company it was mentioned to me that they had already committed alot of their engineering workforce to reverse engineer the Lexar product, so I was taken back to read that more research (evidence) was requested by the judge. Perhaps they mined out the core aspects of the infringement and now are working on the exact details. The case is reportedly in "discovery". Lexar mave have drawn some blood last week, and with the taste of blood asked for an expedient finish to the law suit. I suspect that there is more to it than that. Legal gesturing, perhaps? Ausdauer