small flash cards for low prize?

[Pete Lancashire]

The main issue is silicon, there are two chips a USB interface to
NAND memory device and the NAND memory chip. Most memory fabs only
make 2 to 5 size/density of devices. That today would be a minimum
of 1GB.

as a short life advertising gizmo you may be able to use die that
are rejected for too many bad cells and use a interface chip that
can remove that many. but in todays high volume, it may cost just
as much to select the defects for that use as it would to just buy
the bigger die. with smaller NAND it is getting to where the
assembly costs of something like a dongle are as much as the
silicon.

hope not to much of a ramble ..

-pete


> You may wonder why I am asking such strange question...
>
> We all know that costs of flash memory sticks drops down like crazy. A
> something that was 100 $ a 5 years ago is now ... well.. it is nowhere
> now.
>
> I would love to buy even a 1 MB SSD USB memory stick for 1 $. I would
> buy them perhaps in 100 amount. Why?
>
> Because thats a great medium for advertising: lets imagine that I am at
> a big international conference of physicists and I would like to
> everyone who become interested in my poster presentation to handle a
> digital copy of presentation plus other works I did during last 53
> years. Sure, I could give a copy of CD. But SSD memory stick is easier
> to handle. CD they will throw away while that small device they will
> keep for ever near to their garbage can. And what if it was somewhat
> more than 1.2 MB ? Than we could put a copy of Slackware 1.0 there as
> well...
>
> zb.
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