LSI Life Storage Inc

Innovative storage technology provider reaches new milestone MILPITAS, Calif., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI Corporation (NYSE:LSI) today announced that its read channel technology has shipped in more than 1 billion hard disk drives (HDDs), reinforcing its technology leadership position in System-on-a-Chip (SoC) components for HDDs. The LSI read channel technology originated with AT&T, as part of pioneering work in communications at Bell Labs. Since 1992 when volume shipments of read channels began, LSI has developed successive advances in read channel technology, most recently launching the industry's first 65nm iterative decoding read channel solutions.* "This milestone represents approximately 30 percent of all HDDs shipped since the read channel technology was adopted," said Ruediger Stroh, executive vice president and general manager, LSI Storage Peripherals Group. "It is a tribute not only to our strengths in HDD SoCs, but to our strategic relationships with the top hard drive manufacturers over many years. The complexity of HDD SoC technology and innovation in read channels, in particular, reinforces that LSI is a leader in advanced storage technologies." Shane Rau, program director for IDC's Computing and Storage Semiconductor research, said, "Read channel technology continues to be the linchpin of custom hard disk drive SoCs, and nearly 3.7 billion SoCs are expected to be shipped from 2007 through 2012. IDC data show that the companies that came into this decade with competitive discrete read channel technology survived consolidation and became the market-leading SoC companies. IDC believes that read channel technology will continue to be a major determinant of HDD chip vendor market performance because HDD customers will be looking for it to serve the performance and power consumption needs of market-driving applications such as video storage and low-power storage for mobile PCs." Better read channel performance means increased capacity and improved manufacturing yields, critical factors to profitability in the highly competitive HDD market. By offering complete SoC solutions with integrated read channels, hard disk controllers, serial interfaces, processors, and memory, LSI enables its customers to address all segments of the hard disk drive market, from mission-critical enterprise applications, high-capacity desktop PCs and low-power laptops, and a variety of consumer electronics devices. With its broad storage portfolio -- from hard disk drive components to storage boards to complete storage systems -- LSI provides the most complete end-to-end storage solutions. *Visit http://www.lsi.com/news/product_news/2007/2007_06_04.html "LSI Ships Industry's First 65nm Iterative Decoding Read Channels" for more information on recent LSI read channel technology advances. About LSI LSI Corporation (NYSE:LSI) is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together. The company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known brands to power leading solutions in the Storage, Networking and Mobility markets. More information is available at http://www.lsi.com/. Editor's Notes: 1. All LSI news releases (financial, acquisitions, manufacturing, products, technology, etc.) are issued exclusively by PR Newswire and are immediately thereafter posted on the company's external website, http://www.lsi.com/. 2. LSI and the LSI logo design are trademarks or registered trademarks of LSI Corporation. 3. All other brand or product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. DATASOURCE: LSI Corporation CONTACT: Robert Guenther of LSI Corporation, +1-610-712-1514, ; or Jay Russo of LVA Communications, +1-860-739-5598, , for LSI Corporation Web site: http://www.lsi.com/

Copyright