InPhase Technologies
InPhase Technologies is a technology company developing holographic storage devices and media. InPhase was spun out from Bell Labs in 2000. Their technology eventually promises terabyte storage. In May 2008[1] the company was due to release their first reader, tapestry 300r, offering a storage capacity of 300 GB, with transfer rates of 20 MB/s in read write mode. However, the product was not released by this target date, marking the third time the company failed to release the reader on-time after previously setting release dates of late 2006, and then February 2007.[2] As a result of these delays, InPhase was forced to cut a number of its workforce, and is now targeting a December 2008 release date for the drive.[2]
Future models are promised to reach 120 MB/s with capacities of 1.6 TB[3]
InPhase Technologies currently holds the record for "highest commercial data storage" by achieving 515 Gbit per square inch.[4] of media. Most recently the company broke the 1 terabyte benchmark.[citation needed]
In February 2008, InPhase Technologies was granted a joint patent with video game company Nintendo for a flexure-based scanner for angle-based multiplexing in a holographic storage system.[5]
References
- ^ Holografischer Speicher vor der Markteinführung (German language). Retrieved on 2008-04-20.
- ^ a b Austin Modine (2008-06-05). "Holographic storage kingpin turns staff and product into an illusion".
- ^ [1].[citation needed]
- ^ Holographic advance aids storage
- ^ US patent 7336409, Bradley J. Sissom, "Miniature flexure based scanners for angle multiplexing", published 2007-09-06, issued 2008-02-26, assigned to InPhase Technologies and Nintendo
See also
- Holographic Versatile Disc -- A competitive format
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