CDRInfo reports that Infineon Technologies announced the first complete, single chip, system-on-chip solution for advanced, TrueX Multibeam, DVD drives at the CeBIT Conference in Hannover, Germany, March 22-28. The 0.18 micron CMOS single-chip DVD-ROM controller will be in shown in the Afreey, Inc. booth in hall 9 stand D12.
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The high performance of the drive solution is based on state-of-the-art, Multibeam optical storage technology, which is delivered through a collaboration between three companies: Infineon Technologies, Sanyo and Zen Research. When compared to currently available single beam drives, this multiple-beam optical storage system boasts greater than 200% higher than average throughput. DVD-ROM performance and sustained data rates of 25X DVD (over 34 MBytes/sec) and 100X CD (over 15 MBytes/sec) are expected.With combined shipments of DVD-ROM and Combo drives expected to approach 250 million units by 2004 with CAGRs in excess of 70 percent and 155 percent respectively, solutions that increase performance of these drives have the potential to garner serious consideration by most of the major drive manufacturers,'' said Mary Craig, principal analyst at Gartner Dataquest. ``OEMs should be especially attracted to technologies that can enable substantial power savings in portable applications.''
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