DiskOnChip Millennium Enters High Volume Production; World's First Single Die Flash Disk Enters Mass Manufacturing, Addresses High Market Demand.HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 1999--CeBIT Hall 13, Booth B35--M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. (Nasdaq:FLSHF) today announced that its DiskOnChip(R) Millennium is now entering volume production. The monolithic, single-chip flash disk will be manufactured by Toshiba Corp. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :TOSBF) in its flash memory fab in Japan. M-Systems' DiskOnChip Millennium is the first single-chip flash disk in the market and offers designers the best cost-structure for a flash-based local storage solution. Since its introduction to the market in October 1998, the DiskOnChip Millennium has been designed into numerous applications in the Internet access See how to access the Internet. device (IAD (Integrated Access Device) A device that multiplexes a variety of communications technologies in the customer's premises onto a single telephone line for transmission to the carrier. It also demultiplexes the incoming streams into their respective channels. ) and thin client markets. Other rapidly expanding markets are embedded PCs, telecommunications, networking, portable devices and transportation. DiskOnChip Millennium is based on 64Mbit NAND flash See flash memory. technology. This process, which offers endurance of one million write/erase cycles, together with M-Systems' hardware solution for error correction/error detection and TrueFFS(R) technology wear leveling algorithm, makes DiskOnChip Millennium the most reliable flash disk solution with the longest life-cycle in the market. DiskOnChip Millennium is the first solution to combine a controller and high-density flash memory on a single die, enabling a vast number of applications to benefit from on-board data storage. The SMT (1) (Surface Mount Technology) See surface mount. (2) (Station ManagemenT) An FDDI network management protocol that provides direct management. Only one node requires the software. SMT - Station Management package offers high volume manufacturers an easy path to mass production. "DiskOnChip Millennium is a breakthrough in the market of flash local storage," said Dov Moran, president, M-Systems Ltd. "Since its introduction, DiskOnChip Millennium has been designed into a growing number of high volume projects with key OEMs. We are very excited to begin high volume shipping and estimate hundreds of thousands of units shipped during 1999." "This is the first joint product development between Toshiba and M-Systems and has provided a great impetus to the growth of the flash data storage market. Both companies are expecting a huge success," said Jackie Traeumer, of Toshiba/Business Development Manager. "M-Systems technology is built into all major operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , including Windows CE (Windows Consumer Electronics) Microsoft's version of Windows for handheld devices and embedded systems that use x86, ARM, MIPS and SHx CPUs. Windows CE .NET superseded Windows CE 3.0. , Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and VxWorks, and together with the DiskOnChip Millennium provides a superior flash disk product." DiskOnChip Millennium is offered in 8MB in either a 32-pin dual inline package (DIP) or TSOP (Thin Small Outline Package) A very thin, plastic, rectangular surface mount chip package with gull-wing pins on its two short sides. TSOPs are about a third as thick as SOJ chips. See gull-wing lead, SOP, SOJ and chip package. and operates with a single power supply of 3.3V or 5V. Up to four TSOP packages can be cascaded in parallel without glue logic A simple logic circuit that is used to connect complex logic circuits together. For example, an ASIC chip may contain large functions, such as a microprocessor, memory block or communications block, which are tied together via small amounts of glue logic. to form a 32MB flash disk. Today, M-Systems offers its third generation of DiskOnChip family products. M-Systems introduced DiskOnChip Millennium, the first single-chip flash disk on Oct. 14, 1998. DiskOnChip products are currently designed-in to more than 280 single board computers and embedded applications. M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. (Nasdaq:FLSHF) develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of flash data storage solutions utilizing its patented TrueFFS technology. Leading the market for flash-based local storage applications, M-Systems is the first to bring the market a complete Flash Disk in a single die using its breakthrough DiskOnChip Millennium technology. M-Systems products include the DiskOnChip, Fast Flash Disk (FFD FFD film-focal distance. ), CompactFlash, IDE Flash Disk and Flash PC Cards. For more information, contact M-Systems at 39899 Balentine Drive, Suite 335, Newark, Calif., 94560. Telephone 510/413-5950, e-mail info@m-sys.com and on the Internet at: http://www.m-sys.com. In addition to M-Systems, other vendors manufacturing Flash Disk Chip sets include SanDisk (Nasdaq:SNDK). M-Systems is the first and only provider of the single-chip flash disk. Other solutions are multi component solutions. This press release includes forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. as defined in the private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, as they are subject to various risks and uncertainties which may cause actual results to vary significantly. These risks include (but are not limited to) those related to: timely product and technology development/upgrades; market acceptance of new products and continuing product demand; the impact of competitive products and pricing on the company's and its customers' products and markets; changing economic conditions and exchange rates worldwide; development, release and sales of new products by strategic suppliers and customers; development and growth of anticipated markets for the company's and its customers' products; and other risk factors detailed in the company's most recent annual report, its prospectuses dated Aug. 8, 1996, and July 23, 1997, respectively, and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company assumes no obligation to update the Information in this release. Other products and company names herein may be the trademark of the respective owners. |
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