MILPITAS, Calif., Dec. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI
Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that it is demonstrating to
OEM customers the TrueStore® RC5100 read channel for
hard disk drives (HDD). The RC5100 is the industry's first 28nm
read channel and features a new low-density parity check (LDPC)
iterative decoding architecture, which enables HDD manufacturers to
achieve increased areal density, higher yield and lower power
consumption for HDDs.
A critical piece of technology for increasing the capacity of
hard drives, a read channel translates the magnetically encoded
information on the hard disk drive to electronic signals that can
be understood by the host computer.
"The amount of digital data being generated worldwide continues
to grow at an exponential rate, creating new storage challenges for
client and enterprise customers alike," said Phil Brace, senior vice president and general
manager, Storage Peripherals Division, LSI. "We pride ourselves on
being first to market with new process technology that extends HDD
capacity, accelerates performance and provides our HDD OEM
customers with a time-to-market advantage."
The RC5100 is designed to support notebook, desktop and
enterprise HDDs. It supports low power management features, which
are critical to extending battery life in notebooks and to reducing
energy costs in datacenters. The RC5100 also supports advanced new
technologies such as shingled magnetic recording (SMR), a key
technology for achieving next-generation areal density points.
"LSI has a consistent history of innovation," said Rick Cassidy, president of TSMC North America.
"This 28nm collaboration with TSMC is a continuation of that proud
lineage."
The RC5100 is the latest addition to the LSI®
TrueStore family of ICs for hard disk, solid-state disk and tape
devices, including highly integrated storage system-on-a-chip
(SoC), read channels, preamplifiers, serial PHYs and hard disk
drive controller IP. Together with TrueStore preamplifiers and
serial PHYs, the RC5100 creates a complete data path solution for
HDD manufacturers.
The TrueStore RC5100 is expected to be available to OEM
customers in the first calendar quarter of 2012.
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) designs semiconductors and software
that accelerate storage and networking in datacenters and mobile
networks. Our technology is the intelligence critical to enhanced
application performance, and is applied in solutions created in
collaboration with our partners. More information is available at
www.lsi.com.
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