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The margins on flash media are razor thin already. This is a high volume operation where subcents per unit count. If you can shave off a little more by using a
by sprash 6y ago
The margins on flash media are razor thin already. This is a high volume operation where subcents per unit count. If you can shave off a little more by using a dumb controller that does not contain any IP that needs to be licensed it is very easy to calculate how high the volume has to be in order to be profitable.
- duskwuff 6y agoConsider that Olympus/Fujifilm tried this in the early 2000s with XD-Picture Card. (The cards were literally just a NAND flash chip wired up to the pins.) Even though this theoretically reduced the BOM cost for the cards, XD lost in the market to other solutions like Compact Flash and SD, which embedded a controller.
- sprash 6y agoxD failed because it was a proprietary standard used exclusively by FujiFilm and Olympus and were generally more expensive to the consumers than the completely open and free SD-format. The lack of a flash translation layer was a major advantage.