FLASH market collapses

Yes, CFs have high transfer rates and they are easy to interface.

However I have recently burned with the poor reliability of the modern CF cards of high volume (> 1GB). The bad blocks will be there almost for sure, and the amount of the bads will grow up to hundreds of megabytes. The bigger is the card, the less reliable it is! The result is rather disappointing. We have to run an extensive test for every card for the infant mortality of cells, and after that it seems to be working fine. I've already thought of duplicating all of the data on one card or making something like RAID array...

Vladimir Vassilevsky DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant

Wouldn't price fixing be feed-forward?

(I guess my joke wasn't funny) just to imply that the NFB signal had a loose connection

Michael

Tim Williams wrote:

Starting at $7.99

You can pick them up for $10 Often 4 ports on the plate and one internal.

you can put lots of stuff in a chip package, I've worked on stuff with an RF chip on top of a baseband controller with balun and decoupling inside too, and flash on top of MCU. I'm not sure how many can actually do such things. not sure if you can do chip to chip bonding of need to go via a substrate/pcb which may also be needed if you can't get the pinouts to fit. And if you want fast parallel interface to flash it gets to be _alot_ of pins

-Lasse

Sure, but it's a small market and hence the higher price.

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price.

If you had chosen loop response delay it would have been better received here.

Yes, market penetration. On the other hand, most people i know have several USB memory fobs. I have 5.

I don't think so. Rotating media vs flash is a different equation for archival media.

Contacts and wirebonds are not quite the same as package pins. Compound flip chip may be a workable answer.

I am not really that it is a real issue. Just make it look like an automatic drive mapping at boot.

On a sunny day (Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:36:34 -0700) it happened JosephKK wrote in :

That depends. Simply do the math, most people have maybe less then 30 hours TV recorded. (in the old days 10 VHS cassettes). For 200 Euro you buy 20 8GB sticks makes 60 hours of digital TV storage. Also no problem with data loss, just copy the USB stick to a file, and then copy back, once every 50 years or so ;-) As FLASH prices will fall, more hours for the same money. As a counter effect moving to HD will make Blu-Ray more efficient, perhaps for a while... Then there is the portability issue, I can carry those USB sticks in my shirt pocket, same for SDcards etc, no scratching, no noisy mechanical drives, plays on all PCs, lower power (so Green ;-) ), perhaps the race has already been won by FLASH. Yet an other reason is download of movies, you download to FLASH. For audio the transition has already happened, video is next,