Seagate and AMD Launches Serial ATA 6Gigabit/second

Seagate, teaming with microprocessor manufacturing leader Advanced
Micro Devices (AMD) at the Everything Channel Xchange Conference in
New Orleans this week, today unveiled the world's first public
demonstration of next-generation high-speed data transfer - Serial ATA
6Gigabit/second - for bandwidth-hungry desktop and laptop PC
applications including gaming, streaming video and graphics
multimedia.

The Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second storage interface will deliver the
highest performance - burst speeds of up to 6Gigabits per second - for
all PC applications, maintain backward compatibility with the SATA
3Gb/second and SATA 1.5Gb/second interfaces, and use the same cables
and connectors as previous SATA generations to ease integration. The
third generation of the mainstream storage interface for desktop and
notebook computers also enhances power efficiency and improves Native
Command Queuing, a SATA feature, to increase overall system
performance and data transfer speeds of mainstream PC applications but
especially applications with heavily transactional workloads such as
scientific modeling and forecasting, and engineering design and
simulation.

"The increasing reliance of consumers and businesses worldwide on
digital information is giving rise to gaming, digital video and audio,
streaming video, graphics and other applications that require even
more bandwidth, driving demand for PC interfaces that can carry even
more digital content," said Joan Motsinger, Seagate vice president of
Personal Systems Marketing and Strategy. "The SATA 6Gb/second storage
interface will meet this demand for higher-bandwidth PCs. Seagate has
a long history of being first to market with new technologies such as
Serial ATA, perpendicular recording and self-encrypting drives, and is
pleased to be teaming with AMD to stage the world's first public
demonstration of SATA 6Gb/second storage."