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 See optical disk and legality of 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 PRML - Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (storage) Partial Response Maximum Likelihood - (PRML) A method for converting the weak analog signal from the head of a magnetic disk drive into a digital signal. PRML attempts to correctly interpret even small changes in the analog signal, whereas peak detection relies on fixed thresholds. Because PRML can correctly decode a weaker signal it allows higher density recording.) read channel A circuit in a disk drive that encodes the data bits into flux changes for recording and decodes the magnetic flux changes into bits for reading. 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. |
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