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To: chris431 who wrote (4816)	5/26/1999 11:25:00 PM
From: Kerry Sakolsky	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18366

Chris, The fact that I called you arrogant has nothing to do with your course of study. Education is a great thing. Try learning some manners. Kerry

To: chris431 who wrote (4816)	5/26/1999 11:48:00 PM
From: bob	Respond to of 18366

From Haiyaku on RB: By: haiyaku Reply To: 25410 by balrog Wednesday, 26 May 1999 at 5:56 PM EDT Post # of 25900 Sandisk announcement ~ this is the first announcement from any company/group of size regarding the specific provider of flash memory. 32 meg flash is what Sandisk can provide in mass volume for what our alliance LU/TXN/Edig needs now. The flash industry is just ramping up with the 64's and more recently so, the 96's. There simply is not enough of the higher end units available to support us in volume. Diamond and Creative, even though they announce 64/96's are coming, I believe now have another problem based on the SDMI Phase I announcement of yesterday. While I am not here to discuss Diamond and Creative per se, they've already got some problems. Diamond has sold several hundred thousand 32 meg mp3 players to date. In order to upgrade to 64 meg, they want the current owners to send in the old Rio and pay $149 for the upgrade (expandable to 96) but it still only plays mp3. They are gonna have rebate and handling (financial drain) headaches on this one! Creative's 64 meg player is a 32 onboard/32 removable media upgrade card unit. The main point is that they are still mp3 ONLY players. For them to create competitive demand against us, they will have to offer new units with multi-codec capabilities. No where I have seen any indication that they now have this built-in capability so they will need an operating system/dsp capability that can handle seemless codec multi-tasking. They can either maintain an mp3-only niche or adapt with Edig's Micro OS for flash. hai (that's all i've got to say about that!)