On the Yahoo!Finance website we can read that Oak Technologies will supply the high-speed controllers for Samsung's latest CD-RW drive, the SW-248B. Their latest drive will offer speeds of 48X reading and writing. Re-writing will be done at a maximum speed of 16X.
The SW-248B drive is designed around Oak's OTI-9797T controller and delivers industry-leading performance for reading CD discs and writing CD-R discs at 48X speed, and re-writing CD-RW discs at 16X. This performance level permits the burning of a 74-minute audio CD-R disc in approximately two and a half minutes. |
"Oak is delighted with Samsung's selection of Oak's 9797T CD-RW controller. The latest high-performance drives based on Oak silicon, including the Samsung SW-248B, have enabled a significant increase in end user productivity by reducing the recording time and simplifying the task of recording data to a CD," said John Squire, senior vice president and general manager of Oak's Optical Storage Group.
It will be more interesting to see the first manufacturers using Oak's OTI-9510 controller which is capable of 52X writing/reading and 32X re-writing.
Source: Yahoo!Finance
