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To: ED PLOPA who wrote (4223)	1/5/1999 3:25:00 PM
From: Daniel Joo	Respond to of 60323

FYI. Tuesday January 5, 10:54 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SanDisk Will Supply Agfa With CompactFlash Digital Film Cards for New Agfa Megapixel ePhoto CL30 Digital Camera Agfa Switches From SmartMedia To CompactFlash For New Camera SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 1999--SanDisk Corporation (Nasdaq: SNDK - news) announced today it will supply Agfa with CompactFlash™ (CF™) ''film cards'' for the new Agfa ePhoto™ CL30 digital camera. The new 1.5 megapixel digital camera, which includes a 2x digital zoom, is being introduced this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The ePhoto CL30 is Agfa's first digital camera that uses removable CompactFlash memory cards to capture and store images. Digital cameras previously introduced by Agfa have been using SmartMedia cards. The new camera, which will start shipping this quarter at $399, is one of the industry's lowest priced megapixel digital cameras. The ePhoto CL30 includes a SanDisk 4 megabyte (MB) CF card which will be included with every ePhoto CL30 camera sold. Higher capacity CF cards are available in the 7,000 retail outlets worldwide where SanDisk products are sold. Patrick Pandelaers, Agfa ePhoto digital camera senior project manager, said, ''Agfa has selected SanDisk CompactFlash cards for the new ePhoto CL30 because the cards have proven their ruggedness and reliability among digital camera owners. Agfa customers also will have a wide choice of various capacity sizes as SanDisk sells CF cards ranging in capacity from 4 to 96MB.'' Leon Malmed, senior vice president of sales and marketing at SanDisk, said, ''Agfa's ePhoto CL30 represents a major design win for SanDisk and CompactFlash, a flash memory card that SanDisk invented in 1994. The camera should enjoy considerable success because it is attractively priced and has the compelling features that consumers are looking for in a digital camera. Agfa now joins 27 other companies producing cameras with CF slots including Canon, Casio, Epson, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, Konica, Minolta, Nikon, Panasonic, Polaroid, Vivitar and Yashica.'' CompactFlash has become the de facto global standard for digital film and the most popular storage card used in Windows CE-based handheld computers. More than 120 products have been introduced that use CompactFlash cards including 61 digital cameras and 37 handheld computers. The megapixel ePhoto CL30 is targeted at businesses and consumers who want an easy-to-use, inexpensive camera for taking high quality digital snapshots. The stylish, compact camera has a USB interface which allows users to download photos to a PC at least 10 times faster than by using the standard PC serial port. Agfa will be demonstrating the camera in its booth (No. 4913) at the CES show. SanDisk will be showing its products in the Microsoft Pavilion at the show. SanDisk Corporation, 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. The company is based in Sunnyvale.

To: ED PLOPA who wrote (4223)	1/5/1999 3:26:00 PM
From: Daniel Joo	Respond to of 60323

More news! Keyspan Introduces USB Expansion Card Enabling Macintosh Computers to Use SanDisk USB ImageMate SanDisk ImageMate Is A Low-Cost, Easy-To-Use External CompactFlash Drive For PC and Macintosh Computers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 1999-- SanDisk Corporation (Nasdaq: SNDK - news) announced today that Keyspan, a division of Innosys Inc., has introduced a PCI to USB card for Macintosh computers which enables SanDisk's USB ImageMate™ to be connected to any Macintosh computer with PCI slots. The ImageMate, supporting both Windows® 98 and Macintosh operating systems, allows digital camera owners to quickly and easily transfer images from CompactFlash™ (CF™) digital film cards to a desktop computer. SanDisk and Keyspan are demonstrating SanDisk's USB ImageMate and Keyspan's new card at MacWorld Expo this week in San Francisco (SanDisk booth: Consumer Showcase - USB Area, North Hall E, No. 135; Keyspan booth: No. 4035). Nelson Chan, vice president of marketing at SanDisk, said, ''SanDisk has achieved its goal of expanding the market for CompactFlash because we now offer Macintosh users the same complete solution to quickly and easily transfer images from digital cameras to the computer desktop just as we provided for Windows PC and iMac platforms.'' Mike Ridenhour, president of Keyspan, said, ''With our PCI to USB card and SanDisk's USB ImageMate, a complete solution across both PC and Macintosh platforms is offered to increase the digital photography market. Macintosh users now have the benefits of quick download times and easy desktop recognition. This is a tremendous solution for graphic professionals as well as non-iMac Macintosh users.'' The Keyspan PCI to USB card has an MSRP of $59. SanDisk's USB ImageMate has an MSRP of $89 and is available at major retail outlets. SanDisk Corporation, 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, CA.

To: ED PLOPA who wrote (4223)	1/6/1999 11:55:00 PM
From: jkb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

SNDK.com = instantaneous $80 stock.