Under the agreement, Infineon will license Hitachi's read channel technology to develop and produce SoC (System-on-Chip) and stand-alone read channel devices for hard drives. The agreement covers read channel technology developed by Hitachi for 0.13 micron and 90 nanometer process technologies, with the possibility to extend it to future technologies.

Hitachi's read channel technology performs at data rates up to 1.8 Gbits per second using Infineon's advanced 0.13 micron process and supports advanced features such as perpendicular recording. The silicon has been proven in previous generation implementations that are in production in both SoC and stand-alone read channel configurations.

Samples of 2.4 Gbits per second technology will be available with Infineon's 90 nanometer process in mid 2005.

In January, both companies announced that Hitachi GST had selected Infineon chips to enable 3 Gbits per second native SATA (Serial ATA) capabilities in future versions of its Deskstar hard disk drives.

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