Seagate demo high-speed Serial ATA.Today, at the Everything Channel Xchange Conference in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , Seagate teaming with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. ), demonstrated a new interface that could one day make hard-disk speeds run even faster. The new specification, called SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. 6.0Gbps, will offer twice the disk-to-host bandwidth of the existing 3.0Gbps Serial ATA See SATA. Serial ATA - Serial Advanced Technology Attachment standard. It will be backwards compatible with older devices also. "The new SATA 6Gb/second technology not only incorporates the best features of previous SATA generations but also includes new enhancements,"said Leslie Sobon, vice president of Product Marketing, AMD. "This innovation enables AMD to continue to evolve its technology platforms and to develop low-cost designs that our technology partners can use to improve their own PC and laptop products." The 6.0 Gb/sec interfaces will ship on products in late 2009. |
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