LSI and Seagate Extend Relationship

LSI Corporation announced that Seagate Technology has awarded the company multiple mainstream desktop and notebook hard disk drive (HDD) system-on-chip (SoC) design wins for platforms expected to ship in the 2010 and 2011 timeframes. Seagate has also awarded LSI a SoC design for future solid state drive (SSD) products. These wins are in addition to two future generations of SoC designs targeting the enterprise space that were previously awarded to LSI and are expected to ship in 2010.

With the addition of these wins, LSI will now supply its SoC, industry-leading read channel and ARM(R) controller technology for use in multiple generations of Seagate enterprise, notebook, desktop and consumer drives as well as provide SoC technology to enable future SSD products.

"We’re delighted to further strengthen our relationship with Seagate and extend the benefits of our advanced silicon solutions across the full spectrum of their industry-leading product portfolio," said Ruediger Stroh, executive vice president and general manager, Storage Peripherals Group, LSI. "To date, LSI technology, including SoCs, controllers, read channels and preamps, has been shipped in more than 1.7 billion hard drives across our customer base, and we’re well positioned to increase our business with Seagate in the future."