Advantech Offers Millennium DiskOnChip^®Promotion

Advantech is introducing the DiskOnChip^® Millennium to all our customers with special pricing on the exciting new Millennium DOC 2000 8 MB. The Millennium series, fully substitutable for all previous DiskOnChip^® products, is the world's first monolithic solid state disk. It combines a disk controller with flash memory on a single die and is available in a standard 32-pin DIP.

The Millennium's integration of a flash disk on a single monolithic die has helped lower production cost and ensure high reliability to levels of vibration and temperature extremes conventional magnetic disk drives could not withstand. Advantech is now passing on these improvements to our customers. Once again, all these DiskOnChip products are fully interchangeable, there is no need to redesign your previous DOC investments. All DiskOnChip are ideal for applications where weight, space and power consumption are critical.

Advances Benefit Users

Customers always benefit from these advances. This is reflected in the SSD industry. The reason for these favorable circumstances is mainly due to the increased size of the "base unit" of manufacturing. This "base unit" is defined as the smallest unit of Silicon wafer chip that is produced for a certain product. Not long ago, we saw the 2 MB standard or 2 MB base unit prevail. Presently, we are seeing products with 8 MB and some 16 MB standards. Next year is likely to see the full transition from mostly 8 MB to 16 MB as the standard base unit size.

Advantech Offering More Value

Due to the above reasons, the DOC-2/4/8 will be phased out soon, the PCD-2000-080A (Millennium DOC-2000 8 MB) will be the entry model of DiskOnChip for the Year 2000. Advantech will offer the PCD-2000-080A with a special introduction price, which is about the same as the PCD-2000-0400 current price. This allows customers to get the Millenniums 8 MB capacity at the old 4 MB price. Advantech pushes hard to give our customers the newest technology, at yesterday's prices!

Advantech Keeping Customers Informed

The following tables announce the last-buy dates for certain DOC models as well as the new replacement models. Please note that the largest capacity has been upgraded to 288 MB from 144 MB. We also suggest you to be aware of the December 20th, 1999 deadline for purchasing these soon to be phased-out models.