SATA Product Family Will Support Multiple Interface Standards, RAID Functionality and Data Encryption
OXFORD, England—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 17, 2005— Oxford Semiconductor is to become the first bridge chip company to provide external storage manufacturers with a complete range of SATA disk interfacing solutions. Comprising five new SATA bridge chips, the '92X' product family, to be introduced during Q2 2005, will claim a significant number of technology firsts.Supporting interface standards including USB2.0, FireWire400, FireWire800 and for the very first time, External SATA, Oxford's SATA bridge chips will enable drive manufacturers to produce external storage products with multiple interfaces and sharing a common hardware and software platform.
The product family will also be the first to offer dual integrated SATA ports and hardware accelerated RAID functionality, including striping, mirroring and spanning. ARM7 processor based, the 92X bridge chips aim to provide external storage manufacturers with significant scope for product differentiation.
The rising importance of protecting personal data is also to be fully embraced by the new ICs. Oxford's top-of-the range SATA bridge chips will include transparent data encryption as a standard feature. Storage manufacturers will be able to define whether encryption is applied to one disk, two disks or a partial disk.
Oxford Semiconductor's VP of Worldwide Marketing, Mark Glover commented, "This is a tremendously exciting time for external storage. The sector is making a rapid transition from IDE to SATA disks, consumer demand is growing strongly, and our customers are seeking to significantly extend their product lines."
"By introducing a complete portfolio of SATA bridge chips, based on a common architectural platform, we are providing our customers with the design flexibility and software compatibility to enable them to bring new and exciting products to market in the shortest possible time."
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Oxford Semiconductor Andy Thorne, +44 (0)1235 824 900 Email Contact http://www.oxsemi.com or Publitek Limited Rob Davies, +44 (0)1225 470 000 Email Contact http://www.publitek.com