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To: Ausdauer who wrote (5593)	5/3/1999 5:24:00 PM
From: NHP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Thread, Sandisk was mentioned today on Page B6 of the Wall Street Journal. This is related to the recent announcement by Thomson concerning the Lyra recorder/playback unit: "Unlike the Rio, which stores music on built-in chips, RCA's player will store the audio on removeable flash memory cards developed by SanDisk Corp. and tiny hard drives developed by International Business Machines Corp. Thomson, which sells about $800 million in audio products world-wide annually, plans to alter its home stereos to permit playback of downloaded material, too." NHP

To: Ausdauer who wrote (5593)	5/3/1999 5:28:00 PM
From: Jason Rooks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

"Another likely winner for the nascent portable-player market is solid-state storage media. Dan Auclair, senior vice president of business development at flash-card maker SanDisk, in Sunnyvale, Calif., said, "For us, this is a major opportunity. We're extremely motivated." The company is promoting both its CompactFlash and MultiMedia Card technologies for this market. SanDisk announced this week that Maycom, a South Korean consumer-electronics manufacturer, is using its MultiMedia Card in a new MP3 player, while LG Electronics and Pontis are also designing the same form-factor flash card into their MP3 players. Meanwhile, Casio earlier this month revealed that its new portable Internet audio player, based on Windows CE and designed for Microsoft's MS Audio, will use SanDisk's CompactFlash card. SanDisk's Auclair, also an SDMI member, is currently acting as editor for an ad-hoc group within SDMI to define interface specifications between a so-called Licensed SDMI-Compliant Module (LCM) and portable devices. In SDMI jargon, LCM is defined as a protected environment where LCM systems -- such as PCs, set-tops or Internet appliances -- receive content, rules for content management and protection from a variety of input sources such as CDs, DVDs, and secure Internet music.