- InPhase Technologies
InPhase Technologies is a technology company developing holographic storage devices and media. InPhase was spun out from
Bell Labs in2000 . Their technology eventually promisesterabyte storage. In May 2008 [ [http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Holografischer-Speicher-vor-der-Markteinfuehrung--/meldung/106746 Holografischer Speicher vor der Markteinführung] (German language). Retrieved on2008-04-20 .] 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.cite web|url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/05/inphase_layoffs/|title=Holographic storage kingpin turns staff and product into an illusion|author=Austin Modine|date=2008-06-05] 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.Future models are promised to reach 120 MB/s with capacities of 1.6 TB [ [http://www.inphase-technologies.com/products/media.asp?subn=3_2] .Fact|date=August 2008]
InPhase Technologies currently holds the record for "highest commercial data storage" by achieving 515 Gbit per
square inch . [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4857306.stm Holographic advance aids storage] ] of media. Most recently the company broke the 1terabyte benchmark.Fact|date=June 2008In February 2008, InPhase Technologies was granted a joint patent with video game company
Nintendo for a flexure-based scanner for angle-basedmultiplexing in a holographic storage system. [ref patent |country=US |number=7336409 |status=patent |title=Miniature flexure based scanners for angle multiplexing |pubdate=2007-09-06 |gdate=2008-02-26 |fdate=2007-03-06 |pridate=2006-03-06 |invent1=Bradley J. Sissom |assign1=InPhase Technologies |assign2=Nintendo |class=G03H 1/10]References
See also
*
Holographic Versatile Disc -- A competitive formatExternal links
* [http://www.inphase-technologies.com/ InPhase Web site]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
