SanDisk is the biggest flash memory manufacturer around and it has no intentions of letting go of that position. It has now revealed plans for a new memory card which it claims to be the digital version of a photo film. It is simply a memory card that can only be read, the pictures are simply etched into the memory card forever. When the card is full you can develop the pictures and save the memory card as a negative. The biggest drawback is of course that you need a new memory card each time the first runs out, but SanDisk emphasizes that these memory cards will be considerably cheaper than today’s flash memory cards and that photo and/or data stored on the circuits will be safe for 100 years.
“Rhine also said that SanDisk will create a new product category in the middle of the year: a read-only memory card that will be designed as a cheap archival product. Rhine did not say what technology the cards would use; flash inherently is both a read and write technology.”
