What to consider now....Toshiba has settled with Lexar, now owned by Micron/Intel for a company partnership by the name of IM Flash Technologies.

Lexar and Sandisk(Msystems) would be considered counterpart, with each having a patent base of controller design(firmware). Each, devise to manipulate the read/write of a flash device, and format/bit map under their devised patented conditions.

Through their respective processes, they translate to a PC platform....and follow standards of varying physical makeup, such as, Compactflash, Smartmedia, ....etc.

 They are not an OS base system like e.Digital. If e.Digital were to get involved in a translation firmware process,  it would be much more sophisticated. As it is very portable between higher PC OS's without having yet additional hardware for each higher level platform.  They do not have to manage  bit map associations between each platform....as the above Sandisk/Lexar would. 

 IMO....as e.Digital does not bit map....and they do have the ability to manage the attributes of higher levels OS's.....they should be able to make it all happen under one format in their serialized process.

This is a very important consideration.....seeing that NAND is serial memory.

 As NOR and NAND face off, and you all followed it way before the media brought it to your attention, a new fence is forming.

Sandisk(Msystems) on one side and Toshiba, Micro/Intel(Lexar) on the other for patented IP rights.

Neither one has what e.Digital has.

 DM has sheltered the most important patents.

doni