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Intersil Releases Industry's First Blu-Ray Disc Format Laser Driver to Enable Next-Generation Consumer HDTV and PC Optical Disc Recording
-- EL6900C driver increases recording capability from 4.7 to 27 GB on a single-side CD/DVD
IRVINE, CA, September 9, 2002 ? Intersil Corporation (NASDAQ: ISIL), a world leader in the design and manufacture of high performance analog and wireless networking solutions, today announced the release of the world?s first laser driver designed specifically for the new Blu-Ray Disc industry-standard disc-recording format. The Blu-Ray Disc standard is the next-generation recording technology beyond DVD that dramatically increases recording density by using a shorter-wavelength 405-nm blue-violet laser ? compared to the conventional longer-wavelength 650-nm red laser used for today?s DVD technology.
"Intersil is once again leading the industry in the next wave of video and data storage technology. The EL6900C and the Blu-Ray Disc recording standard satisfy the surging demand for increased disc-based video and data recording capacity, " said Michelle Abraham, senior analyst with In-Stat/MDR. "We project this new technology will propel the DVD rewritable market to 62 million units in 2006."
The Blu-Ray Disc shorter-wavelength laser enables a smaller spot size and track pitch to be recorded on the disc and thus increases the storage density from 4.7 to 27 GB on a single side disc. The 27-GB Blu-Ray Disc format is targeted into a variety of applications including PC archival data storage Ultra Density Optical (UDO) drives and Consumer digital video recorders (DVR) to record up to two hours of high-definition television (HDTV) on a single 120-mm DVD/CD size disc.
?The EL6900C is our first product offering on our roadmap of Blu-Ray Disc format write strategy laser drivers and demonstrates our commitment to developing the first industry-enabling products for emerging high growth Optical Disc Storage Markets,? said Mohan Maheswaran, vice president and general manager of Intersil?s Elantec Product Group. ?We will continue to develop state of the art products that enable increasing write-speed performance and integration of system-level features that offer the highest performance and most cost effective system-level solution in the industry.
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