Date: 22/10/2008

Seagate extends awarding disk-drive SOC design wins to LSI

Seagate has awarded LSI Corp., multiple mainstream desktop and notebook hard disk drive (HDD) system-on-chip (SoC) design wins for platforms expected to ship in the 2010 and 2011 timeframes. Seagate has also awarded LSI a SoC design for future solid state drive (SSD) products.

LSI will now supply its SoC, read channel and ARM® controller technology for use in multiple generations of Seagate enterprise, notebook, desktop and consumer drives as well as provide SoC technology to enable future SSD products.

Ruediger Stroh, executive vice president and general manager, Storage Peripherals Group, LSI said,. "To date, LSI technology, including SoCs, controllers, read channels and preamps, has been shipped in more than 1.7 billion hard drives across our customer base, and we're well positioned to increase our business with Seagate in the future."