Partnership With Samsung Is Solid As Oak.

Oak Technology and Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd. announced a partnership that covers a range of cooperation between the two companies. Samsung Electronics and Oak will exploit each party's expertise, including haring resources, technical expertise, technology, and semiconductor cores, to create solutions for markets in digital imaging and optical storage. The cooperation will initially focus on two specific areas of optical storage.

One features Samsung's development of a line of 8x CD-RW drives, using Oak Technology's OTI9790 CD-RW controller architecture. The integration in the controller architecture allows Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd. to develop drives that are suitable for line fit applications with PC OEMs.

On the other hand, Oak has licensed Samsung Electronics' PRML (Partial Response Maximum Likelihood) read channel and RF-Amp technology, which the Korean chipmaker has already implemented for internal use. The agreement combines Samsung's DVD technology with Oak Technology's optical storage controller technology. These initial steps are seen as the first in a broader cooperation between the two companies.

The architecture is a technological keystone in Oak's optical storage strategy. Oak Technology is recognized as one of the suppliers of optical storage controllers for CD-ROM and CD-RW drives worldwide, having sold more than 125 million optical storage controllers worldwide to date.